Implementing free prior and informed consent: the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007), the challenges of REDD+ and the case for the precautionary principle

Raftopoulos, Malayna; Short, Damien

doi:10.1080/13642987.2019.1579990

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“…Indeed, there are multiple definitions of FPIC, from the relatively comprehensive description within the non-binding United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (which includes criteria such as redress for cultural, intellectual, religious, and spiritual property taken without FPIC) to less stringent definitions associated with project funders such as the Green Climate Fund’s Indigenous Peoples Policy (UNFCCC 2022b ) or the World Bank’s Environmental and Social Standards (which focus on obtaining “broad community support” for a current specified intervention) (Raftopoulos and Short 2019 ). In a similar fashion, principles aspiring to recognize knowledge systems, customary institutions, and traditional practices are commonly listed in policies, safeguards, and objectives, yet clear tools and instruments are not always provided or used for identifying, documenting, and respecting rights associated with relevant institutions as standard practice.…”

Section: The Position Of Diverse Knowledge Systems Within Internation...mentioning

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Placing diverse knowledge systems at the core of transformative climate research

Orlove¹,

Sherpa²,

Dawson³

et al. 2023

Ambio

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We argue that solutions-based research must avoid treating climate change as a merely technical problem, recognizing instead that it is symptomatic of the history of European and North American colonialism. It must therefore be addressed by decolonizing the research process and transforming relations between scientific expertise and the knowledge systems of Indigenous Peoples and of local communities. Partnership across diverse knowledge systems can be a path to transformative change only if those systems are respected in their entirety, as indivisible cultural wholes of knowledge, practices, values, and worldviews. This argument grounds our specific recommendations for governance at the local, national, and international scales. As concrete mechanisms to guide collaboration across knowledge systems, we propose a set of instruments based on the principles of consent, intellectual and cultural autonomy, and justice. We recommend these instruments as tools to ensure that collaborations across knowledge systems embody just partnerships in support of a decolonial transformation of relations between human communities and between humanity and the more-than-human world.

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Section: The Position Of Diverse Knowledge Systems Within Internation...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Placing diverse knowledge systems at the core of transformative climate research

Orlove¹,

Sherpa²,

Dawson³

et al. 2023

Ambio

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“…Additionally, recognition of the connection between the environment and cultural distinctiveness to a group is heavily missing or overlooked in the UNFCCC, even with the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Universal Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. It is a matter of frustration for many indigenous social workers and organizational entities that in contemporary strategic discussions on climate change, none of the cultures, practices, or ecosystems that create belongingness to groups of indigenous people is documented or appreciated (Dryzek et al, 2011;Raftopoulos and Short, 2019). According to Fraser (2014), the downfall of recognition is that it is often used to attain authority over those who are already being discriminated, ridiculed, or ignored.…”

Section: Climate Justice Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate justice for the southwestern coastal region of Bangladesh

Ashrafuzzaman¹,

Gomes²,

Guerra³

2022

Front. Clim.

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Climate change is considered a moral, ethical and social issue, which makes it different from other developmental issues. The foremost instance of lack of justice regarding climate change is that the worst impacted areas are the ones with the lowest contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, such as the southwestern coastal region of Bangladesh (SWCRB). Climate change is principally triggered by the presence and eventual spread of industrialization. This study employed the mixed method, combining qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection and analysis for development of a framework for climate justice. Data and information were obtained from both primary and secondary sources. In primary sources, quantitative data were collected from climate vulnerable community households using a structured close ended questionnaire and interactive sessions such as focus group discussions, in-depth interviews, key informant interviews, workshops, and case studies. This study explored the perceptions of people in the SWCRB, currently experiencing devastating effects of climate change and sea level rise including extreme natural disasters, seasonal changes, flooding, salinization, riverbank erosion, and waterlogging. These climate-induced changes are causing loss of housing, livelihoods, and land to the natives, in addition to a lack of access to proper nutrition, potable water, and healthcare thus exacerbating social injustice. A capability-based approach to climate justice is introduced in this paper, which allows for residents of this region to prepare and rebuild their own communities and create adaptive mechanisms based on their specific capabilities. This approach requires compensation (funding) from the global community, in addition to organizational connection between local people and other stakeholders. The people in the SWCRB are increasingly opting for community-based disaster management and inclusion in policy making. Persistent issues faced by these communities require sustainable development of embankments and infrastructure, as well as affordable and sustainable access to potable water. Industrialized nations should provide this compensation for climate change, in addition to acting promptly to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and opt for renewable energy to avoid worst-case scenario. Lastly, involuntarily displaced climate refugees must be provided rights, compensation, and relocation assistance.

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“…This is particularly important in recognizing and supporting the Ch'a Cháak ceremony, the Xook K'iin, and indicators of nature and the sky, and explains the importance of indigenous movements' claims on self-determination in decision-making processes that affect them (Schlosberg and Collins, 2014;Ludwig and Macnaghten, 2019). This scale of justice was advanced with the Indigenous peoples' right to "Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC)" outlined in the 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Raftopoulos and Short, 2019). This concept contemplates the rights of participation, consultation, and self-determination as a way to recognize the historic injustices that they have suffered (McGee, 2009).…”

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Mayan Traditional Knowledge on Weather Forecasting: Who Contributes to Whom in Coping With Climate Change?

Camacho-Villa

Martínez-Cruz

Ramírez-López

et al. 2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Despite international commitments to integrate indigenous peoples and their Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) in actions combating climate change, their inclusion remains limited. Integrating TEK with scientific knowledge has become particularly important in sectors such as agriculture, which both contributes to and is affected by climate change. While there is a general recognition that integrating TEK will contribute to climate change adaptation, agricultural interventions have made little progress in achieving this due to the assumption of a clear divide between TEK and scientific knowledge. This paper considers that knowledge integration is already occurring, but in contexts of economic, sociocultural, and political inequalities. We elaborate on the case of traditional weather forecasting methods used by Mayan indigenous farmers in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula to propose a social justice perspective for knowledge integration in climate change interventions. Using information from three studies conducted between 2016 and 2019, we first explain the importance of weather and traditional weather forecast methods for indigenous Mayan farmers. Later we describe in detail both these methods and their links with Mayan cosmology. Findings show how weather phenomena such as drought and hurricanes are main concerns for milpa farming. They illustrate the diversity of traditional short, medium, and long-term weather forecast methods based on observations from nature and the sky. Farmers also perform rituals that are related to their Mayan gods and goddess. As TEK not only defines agricultural calendars but also reproduces Mayan culture, we discuss what is needed for its integration into actions combating climate change. We use a rights-based approach that considers the economic, cultural, and political scales of justice to equally allocate resources and benefits for traditional knowledge systems, recognize indigenous values and worldviews avoiding cultural harms, and accomplish indigenous self-determination through equal representation. As a result, we hope to incentivize development actors engaged in agricultural interventions on climate change to critically reflect and examine power dynamics and relations when working with indigenous communities.

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Implementing free prior and informed consent: the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007), the challenges of REDD+ and the case for the precautionary principle

Cited by 10 publications

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Placing diverse knowledge systems at the core of transformative climate research

Placing diverse knowledge systems at the core of transformative climate research

Climate justice for the southwestern coastal region of Bangladesh

Mayan Traditional Knowledge on Weather Forecasting: Who Contributes to Whom in Coping With Climate Change?

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