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Stewarding the Earth

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Ramiro Batzin, Director of Sotz’il and IUCN Councillor, summarises a year of achievement in advancing Indigenous priorities across environment policymaking:

Last September at the IUCN World Conservation Congress Indigenous Peoples reaffirmed their rights at the World Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nature. Together, IUCN Indigenous Peoples Organisation members presented their proposals as stewards of nature by launching their Global Indigenous Agenda for the Governance of Indigenous Lands, Territories, Waters, Coastal Seas and Natural Resources and calling on the global community to take affirmative actions to support implementation.



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Thank you for being a part of the journey and click the button or the card above to see the site, which houses this campaign to review the series of video messages.

This email concludes the global communications campaign, Indigenous Insights – Stewarding the Earth, which shared video messages from IUCN’s Indigenous Peoples’ Organisation members on the role of Indigenous leadership and governance in stewarding and defending nature in a key year for conservation policy. Thank you for being a part of the journey and click above to review the series of video messages. We also invite you to review and celebrate a year of impact in 2021, summarised below:

Reviewing a year of impact:

2021 was momentous for making strides on advancing the rights and interests of Indigenous Peoples in conservation and climate policy action:

• From January to August 2021, IUCN hosted several regional Indigenous Peoples Organisation Forums to co-create the Global Indigenous Agenda for the Governance of Indigenous Lands, Territories, Waters, Coastal Seas and Natural Resources, which was launched at the first-ever IUCN World Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nature.

• For the first time, IUCN Indigenous Peoples Organisations proposed, endorsed and voted on IUCN World Conservation Congress motions as a distinct membership category, including a call to protect 80% of Amazonia by 2025.

• At the World Conservation Congress, IUCN Members voted to amend IUCN’s Statute to formally establish an elected Indigenous Councillor.

• 100% of motions sponsored by IUCN Indigenous Peoples Organisations were passed by IUCN’s Members Assembly – demonstrating support for Indigenous-led and informed conservation solutions.

• The Marseille Manifesto included a high-level commitment on supporting Indigenous Peoples in advancing the Global Indigenous Agenda.

• In April, the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB), the Indigenous Women’s Biodiversity Network (IWBN), Red de Mujeres Indígenas sobre biodiversidad (RMIB), Sotz’il, and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD) co-hosted a dialogue on practical tools for engagement with the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

• In August, the Third Meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework was held to advance preparations for the development of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework.

• At the Glasgow Climate Change Conference (COP26) a landmark announcement was made by a coalition of governments and stakeholders to commit US$ 1.7 billion over the next four years towards Indigenous Peoples and Local Community (IPLC) led climate solutions. IUCN applauds this decision to place climate finance in the hands of nature’s best stewards.

• During a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s COP26 event titled Our Climate Future is Female, Ak’Tenamit’s President and Legal Representative Graciela Coy spoke with USAID’s Administrator Samantha Power and Nisreen Elsaim, Chair of the UN Secretary General’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change and Chair of the Sudan Youth Organization on Climate Change, about women and girls leading climate action.

• FPCI (Foundation for the Promotion of Indigenous Knowledge) Executive Director Onel Masardule and COICA (Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica) Vice Coordinator Tuntiak Katan spoke about A New Vision of Climate Finance from Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities at a Global Environment Facility (GEF) COP26 event.

• The International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change (IIPFCC) held several meetings at COP26’s Indigenous Peoples Pavilion.

• On 08 October, the United Nations Human Rights Council recognised that a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right. You can read IUCN’s statement on the decision here.



• On 06 December, IUCN hosted a dialogue on People and Nature-based Solutions to review a momentous year for enhanced recognition of the interdependency of people, human rights, and nature.

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