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Date: 28th November 2023
Time: 9:00-10:00 AM EST, 15:00-16:00 CEST
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The UN’s past two global climate summits have been big on promises for Indigenous Peoples. At COP26 in 2021 governments and private philanthropies pledged nearly $2 billion for Indigenous Peoples and local communities to fight deforestation. Last year’s COP27 led to the creation of a new “loss and damage” fund to help vulnerable communities respond to climate disasters. Leaders are now again preparing for a round of climate talks at COP28, which start later this month in Dubai, this time vowing to enhance the participation and visibility of Indigenous Peoples during the negotiations.
This webinar gathered experts and on-the-ground activists to examine how commitments from past COPs to Indigenous Peoples and local communities have not filtered down to where they matter most as well as how this year’s summit can fix climate financing by making it more inclusive and responsive to these communities and their own funding mechanisms. The session also highlighted the importance of robust data in monitoring and tracking climate funds set aside for Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
Indigenous Peoples have an outsized role in addressing climate change, and have unique perspectives and needs that should be considered in the lead-up to COP28. However, many communities wouldn’t be able to carry out concrete solutions unless delegates at COP28 ensure that the financial pledges and commitments are honored.
SPEAKERS
- Deborah Sanchez, Director of the Community Land Rights and Conservation Finance Initiative (CLARIFI)
- Casey Box, Director of GLobal Strategy, Christensen Fund
- Jenny Lopez, Land Governance Adviser at FCDO
- Josimara Bare and Valeria Paye, Podaali Fund
The Land Dialogues webinar series promotes the centrality of Indigenous and community land rights in advancing global efforts to halt the climate crisis, achieving a healthy planet and forwarding the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It focuses on the importance of formally recognising and securing the customary lands of Indigenous Peoples and local communities as a crucial contribution to the overall climate health of the planet.
The Land Dialogues 2023 series shed light on a variety of important issues regarding the agency of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities’ land rights; from the power differentials that existed concerning Indigenous land data, to Indigenous Peoples and Local communities taking back control of the dialogues and discussions with donors regarding climate funds.
In 2022 we remain in the midst of a once-in-a-century pandemic, increasingly violent weather events connected to the changing climate, and global security tensions due to war and conflict. Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs) are among the most vulnerable and are both directly and indirectly hard-hit by these events.
The Land Portal Foundation, the Tenure Facility, the Thomson Reuters Foundation and the Ford Foundation proposed a series of Land Dialogues promoting the centrality of Indigenous and community land rights in advancing global efforts to halt the climate crisis, achieving a healthy planet and forwarding the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Under the umbrella of the Land Dialogues series, the third webinar of this year’s series “Climate Funding and COP28 : Turning Pledges into Action” took place on November 28th, 2023. The webinar drew in a little under 200 participants and featured panelists from Indigenous leaders to donors. The series is organized by a consortium of organizations, including the Land Portal Foundation, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Tenure Facility.