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Haenssgen, Marco J., Lechner, Alex M., Rakotonarivo, Sarobidy , Leepreecha, Prasit, Sakboon, Mukdawan, Chu, Ta-Wei, Auclair, Elizabeth and Vlaev, Ivo (2022) Implementation of the COP26 declaration to halt forest loss must safeguard and include Indigenous people. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 6 . pp. 235-236. doi:10.1038/s41559-021-01650-6
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01650-6
Abstract
World and industry leaders at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) asserted in their declaration on Forest and Land Use a commitment to “halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030”1. Nothing less than decisive and coordi-nated global action is required as we near an apocalyptic future of environmental degrada-tion, species extinction, and catastrophic climate change. With the recent acceleration in newly created global commitments and successes such as the achievement of Aichi Target 11 in 20212, we should nonetheless pause and reflect about the implications of such top-down pledges to conserve forests for indigenous peoples worldwide.
To successfully achieve our climate change mitigation goals through halting deforestation while safeguarding indigenous peoples’ and forest-dwelling communities’ dignity, rights, and livelihoods will require policy makers to be socially inclusive and ensuring that conser-vation initiatives learn from the long history and problematic history of forest conservation. It is important that the burden of addressing mitigating climate change should not fall on indigenous communities who are the least responsible for the current biodiversity and cli-mate crises.
| Item Type: | Journal Item | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography Q Science > QC Physics S Agriculture > SD Forestry |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School for Cross-faculty Studies Faculty of Arts > School for Cross-faculty Studies > Global Sustainable Development |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Indigenous peoples -- Ecology, Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects, Climatic changes -- Government policy, Forest conservation, Forest degradation, Forest management, Environmental protection -- Citizen participation, Forest conservation -- International cooperation | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Nature Ecology & Evolution | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Springer Nature | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 2397-334X | ||||||||
| Official Date: | March 2022 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 6 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 235-236 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41559-021-01650-6 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 24 November 2021 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 13 July 2022 | ||||||||
| Funder: | Royal Academy of Engineering | ||||||||
| Grant number: | FS-2122-16-106 | ||||||||
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