IEN’s Indigenous Feminisms Program presents: INDIGENOUS WOMEN FACING CLIMATE CATASTROPHE ~ As Water Protectors of Territorial Health

In many Indigenous cultures, responsibility and stewardship of water is an almost exclusive role of women. Water is a critical life source, sustaining Indigenous cultures, foods, medicines, and economies. Listen to this discussion about the responsibilities and relationships Indigenous women have with water and how they are protecting territorial health.

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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ HEALTH AND THE VIOLENCE OF FALSE SOLUTIONS

UN False solutions and inadequate climate action seriously affects the inherent rights of Indigenous Peoples and their right to territorial and human health. False solutions like carbon markets, nature-based solutions, and geoengineering techno-fixes provide a cover for fossil fuel corporations to continue to pollute, extract, and exert violence against Indigenous Peoples, Mother Earth, and Father Sky.

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Recommendations from the Indigenous Environmental Network for adoption by the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Theme: Indigenous Peoples, human health, planetary and territorial health and climate change: a rights-based approach

The Forum calls upon the UNFCCC COP and Parties to the Paris Agreement (PA/CMA) ensure that the Article 6 Governing Body does not allow offsets to NDCs that were generated in whole or in part by violations of Indigenous rights, particularly their right to territorial and human health, such as their production and consumption of their traditional means of subsistence, and their Sovereignty and Self-determination.

The Forum, keeping in mind the IPCC’s Synthesis report of March 2023, and recalling the Secretary General’s conclusion that humanity is committing suicide with its addiction to fossil fuels, calls upon the PA/CMA to avoid false and unproven solutions to global warming, particularly those that affect Indigenous Peoples’ human and territorial health, in Article 6 and other mechanisms of the Paris Agreement, including, inter alia, so called technologies which are tested on Indigenous Territories, such as Carbon Dioxide Removals (land and ocean based carbon offsets, CCS, CCUS, DAC, Ocean Fertilization etc.), Solar Radiation Mitigation (Stratospheric Aerosol Injection such as Scopex, Surface Albedo modification such as Arctic Ice Project), and Marine Geoengineering (other forms of ice modification, Marine Cloud Brightening, and Ocean Fertilization.