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Reports and articles on indigenous peoples and climate change


 Indigenous People and Climate Change - briefing paper for the UNFCCC Intersessional Meeting, Bangkok 2009 Briefing Paper Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change, Bali 2007.


 REDD+ and Indigenous Peoples: A briefing paper for policy makers


 Shifting Cultivation and Climate Change - Briefing paper for the UNFCCC Intersessional Meeting, Bangkok 2009.

 REDD and Indigenous peoples - various articles publised in Indigenous Affairs 1-2/2009  (internal link)

    Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change - Various articles publised in Indigenous Affairs 1-2/2008 (internal link)

   
Guide on Climate Change and Indigneous Peoples - By Tebtebba (PDF)

    Demystifying Climate Change Negotiations - By Raymond de Chavez (web link)

    Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change - Edited by Jan Salick and Anja Byg (PDF)

    Indigenous and Traditional Peoples and Climate Change – IUCN (PDF)

    Climate Change: An Overview - Paper prepared by SPFII (doc)

    Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Peoples' Issues: collated paper on indigenous peoples and climate change (E/C.19/2008/CRP.2) (PDF)

    International Expert Group Meeting on Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change - Various articles, UNPFII (web link)

    Report on Indigenous and Local Communities Highly Vulnerable to Climate Change, Inter Alia, of the Arctic, Small Island States and High Altitudes, with a Focus on Causes and Solutions (UNEP/CBD/WG8J/5/INF/18) (PDF)

    Climate Change Mitigation & Indigenous Peoples' Welfare: Analysis of the International Legal Regime – By Eliamani  Laltaika (web link)

    Climate Change Sounds Death Knelll to Pastoralism - By Michael Tiampati (web link)


    Climate Change and Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations. Published in October 2006 by the Northwest Indian Applied Research Institute (NIARI) and The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, USA (PDF)

   
The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility: Facilitating the weakening of indigenous peoples' rights to lands and resources – By Forest Peoples Programme (PDF)

    Seeing "RED"? "Avoided deforestation" and the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities - By Forest Peoples (PDF)

   
The Samoa case study: An Assessment of Impacts, Vulnerability, and Adaptation to Climate Change in Samoa - By Fiu Mataese Elisara-La'ulu (PDF)

    The India Case Study
: Carbon Sinks, Carbon Trade, the Clean Development Mechanism, and the Indigenous Peoples of the North-East Region of India - By Anna Pinto (PDF)

    The
Ecuador Case Study: Sustainable and Effective Practices under Guidelines for Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry - By Johnson Hugo Cerda Shiguango (PDF)

    
Closing Statement of the International Indigenous Peoples' Forum on
Climate Change.
UN Framework Conference on Climate Change, Pozna, Poland, 12 December 2008.  (PDF)

   Chris Erni:
Shifting the Blame? Southeast Asia’s Indigenous Peoples and Shifting Cultivation in the Age of Climate Change. Paper presented at the seminar on “Adivasi/ST Communities in India: Development and Change” Delhi, August 27-29, 2009



 

 




 
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