Guide on Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples

• The way indigenous peoples managed to put their rights and concernsinto the center of the REDD+ debate is a huge leap from where theUNFCCC was two years back. This has been done in partnership withgovernments and NGOs who are also concerned about how indigenouspeoples, rights and traditional knowledge have been kept out of theUNFCCC for so long.• What will happen in COP15 in relation to REDD+ will be determined bythe actions taken by indigenous peoples, themselves, and the way theywill relate with Parties who will make the final decisions.Endnotes:1 Tom Griffiths, “Seeing Red: Avoided Deforestation and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples andLocal Communities,” June 2007.2 Ibid., p. 3.3 Ibid.4 This position of rejecting the inclusion of sinks in the CDM is not a view shared by otherindigenous peoples’ organizations or communities. Some communities have entered into dealswith the voluntary carbon market and there are a few indigenous peoples who are engaged inreforestation and these projects have been accepted as part of the CDM. The full Declarationcan be downloaded from .5 See Tauli-Corpuz, Victoria and Aqqaluk Lynge, Impact of Climate Change MitigationMeasures on Indigenous Peoples and on Their Territories and Lands [E/C.19/2008/10]. This can bedownloaded from or from .6 Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Statement to the COP’s SBSTA on Agenda Item 2: ReducingEmissions From Deforestation And Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD):Approaches To Stimulate Action, 2 December 2008, Poznan, Poland at 5 January 2009.7 The consultation was co-organized with the UN-REDD Programme, UN University (UNU)and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity with the support of the PackardFoundation.8 Full Report can be downloaded at .9 The First Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG) on climate change and biodiversity ofthe CBD was held from 17-21 November 2008 in London.10 Norwegian initiative that provides resources to the FCPF, FIP and the UN-REDD.11 World Bank, Forest Carbon Partnership Facility: A Framework for Piloting Activities toReduce Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation.12 13 Side event organized by Forest Peoples Programme, Tebtebba, IPACC and FPCI(Foundation for the Promotion of Indigenous Knowledge).14 Charter of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility. Operating Principles, 3.1(d). Available at:15 Page 3, Paragraph 7 of the “Climate Investment Funds: Design Document for the ForestInvestment Program. A Targeted Program Under the SCF Trust Fund,” July 2, 2009.16 This meeting was convened in the first quarter of 2009.17 For the purpose of the FIP “indigenous peoples and local communities” includes tribalcommunities and implies equal emphasis on the rights of men and women.PART V: REDD/REDD+ and Indigenous Peoples 97