Avoided Deforestation (REDD) and Indigenous ... - Amazon Fund
Avoided Deforestation (REDD) and Indigenous ... - Amazon Fund
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to implement <strong>REDD</strong> projects with because the Venezuelan government has publicly expressed<br />
its disagreement with the application of compensation mechanisms that avoid the absolute<br />
compliance with obligatory goals on the part of Annex I countries. Additionally, in relation to the<br />
territorial rights of indigenous people in Venezuela, the implementation of current indigenous<br />
norms has been a serious problem for more than a decade. On the other h<strong>and</strong>, there is no clarity<br />
regarding the harmonization between indigenous rights <strong>and</strong> the current forestry legislation.<br />
The ancestral l<strong>and</strong>s of a very high percentage of indigenous people in the Venezuelan <strong>Amazon</strong><br />
overlap with NPAs without any rules that govern this situation.<br />
Finally, it is necessary to recognize that in many countries national laws <strong>and</strong> administrative<br />
practice of adopting international agreements are inconsequential, as the Peruvian case explicitly<br />
exemplifies. It is not possible to confirm that the rest of the countries have acceptable levels<br />
of normative coherence between the international instruments ratified by them, their internal<br />
norms <strong>and</strong> their administrative practices. Because of this, among other reasons, it would be<br />
naïve to believe that adopting international agreements by itself guarantees the effectiveness of<br />
indigenous rights. However, it is not possible to ignore that the existence of these international<br />
agreements represents an important frame for the internal political debate which each country<br />
will have to face in the definition <strong>and</strong> distribution of the costs <strong>and</strong> the benefits derived from the<br />
implementation of <strong>REDD</strong> mechanisms.<br />
It is important to underst<strong>and</strong> that the international instruments regarding human<br />
rights of indigenous people are an important legal frame, but not sufficient to warrant that the<br />
implementation of <strong>REDD</strong> mechanisms also guarantees the territorial rights of indigenous people.<br />
The consolidation of the indigenous peoples’ territorial governance of the will define case by<br />
case the rights <strong>and</strong> obligations the indigenous people <strong>and</strong> other traditional populations who<br />
currently live there derive from the maintenance of the <strong>Amazon</strong> forest.<br />
70 Av o i d e d d e f o re s t A t i o n (redd) A n d i n d i g e n o u s p e o p l e s: experiences, chAllenges A n d o p p o r t u n i t i e s in t h e A m A zo n c o n t e x t
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