the COP 9th Statement on International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity

the COP 9th Statement on International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity

Berikut pernyataan dari Forum Masyarakat Adat Internasional tentang Keanekaragaman Hayati yang disampaikan pada Persidangan Tingkat Tinggi COP 9 CBD yang berlangsung pada tanggal 29 Mai 2008, di Bonn, Jerman.

Distinguished Ministers and Delegates,
I make this statement on behalf of the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB). COP9, has around 500 participants from Indigenous Peoples and local communities from around the world.

1. The Convention on Biological Diversity, among the Rio Conventions, enjoys broad participation from among indigenous peoples and local communities. It has pioneered participatory mechanisms and elements of work for the protection and promotion of traditional knowledge, which is considered best practice among the environmental conventions. Accordingly, we look to the CBD to fulfil its role as the leading instrument for safeguarding biological and cultural diversity.
2. COP9 takes place at a time when the Earth, our home, and the web of life, our source and sustenance, are dying from our lack of love and care. Fundamental fault lines within the global economic and trading system, cannot be plastered over by relatively weak environmental mitigation measures. For example, sustainability criteria for agro-fuels, do not solve the underlying problem of energy over-consumption.

As we near 2010, we ask ourselves, what can be accomplished at COP9, and beyond, to move us along a countervailing path? Our message to Ministers, is that democratisation of governance and decision-making is a fundamental part of the solution.

1. ON PROTECTED AREAS, the historical failure of nature protection against local people, needs correction and restitution. Indigenous Peoples proclaim conservation by the people, of the people, and for the people as our contribution towards a global shift in conservation thinking. Legal recognition of Indigenous peoples’ territories and bio-cultural landscapes as conservation areas under local control and resource management, will increase the coverage, quality and equity of Protected Areas. This bold turn-around in conservation policy and approach, contained in the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas on expanded governance types over protected areas, directly addresses the conflicts between conservation and local people, which blights the target for a global system of protected areas. Indigenous peoples have enhanced plant and animal diversity, landscape diversity and ecosystem diversity, underpinned by indigenous cosmologies, values, and traditional knowledge. The world’s remaining areas of high biodiversity are to be found on indigenous peoples territories. Estimated to cover 20% of the Earth’s surface, these ancestral lands are de facto conservation areas under governance systems of indigenous authorities and local communities. Traditional livelihoods like hunting and gathering, pastoralism, reindeer herding, rotational farming or swidden cultivation, agro-forestry, and fishing, are time-tested resource management systems, highly adapted and responsive to the ecosystems in which they are practised. But in recent decades, these have come under tremendous pressures primarily from government policies and economic development, including through protected area enclosures, causing impoverishment and marginalisation. for example, the pygmy peoples of the central African rainforests.
2. ON BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE – Proposals for Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) are climate proposals for expanded “protected areas” aimed at carbon sequestration. A new round of “guns and guards” conservation can only exacerbate past problems. REDD proposals as currently designed will not deliver benefits to indigenous and local communities, so we need to be central to REDD reconceptualization and design. Alternative approaches are needed, focused on demarcation and securing indigenous peoples territories from external expropriation and deforestation. Secure land rights, can simultaneously deliver on customary sustainable use and resource management, poverty alleviation and biodiversity conservation and resilience. These in turn, contribute to mitigation and local adaptation to climate change. Targeted public financing, rather than carbon trading, is the appropriate funding mechanism, to secure the multiple benefits of indigenous territories. Funds for the fulfilment of the Millennium Development Goals, biodiversity protection and climate change mitigation and adaptation are most usefully targeted towards indigenous peoples and local communities, thus rewarding their historical and continuing role as keepers and custodians of biodiversity. All such projects must obtain the Free, prior and informed consent of indigenous peoples concerned, respecting their rights to say NO.
3. ON ACCESS AND BENEFIT-SHARING - COP9 has achieved a road map for negotiating an International Regime on Access and Benefit-sharing, including the participation of indigenous and local communities. A substantive breakthrough is still awaited, in the form of operative texts and legally binding provisions, upholding our rights, in both provider and user countries. Indigenous Peoples welcome the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, as fundamental in achieving the goals of the CBD, including in the fair and equitable sharing of benefits from the use of genetic resources and traditional knowledge.

Human rights are universal values consistent with the three objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity, and Indigenous Peoples call on all Parties to make good their commitments under the CBD, in partnership with indigenous peoples and local communities.

Thank you very much for your attention.

High-level Segment COP9
Statement by Joji Carino, Tebtebba Foundation
on behalf of the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity

"Berdaulat secara Politik, Mandiri secara Ekonomi, dan Bermartabat secara Budaya" Artikel Terkait :

Berikut pernyataan dari Forum Masyarakat Adat Internasional tentang Keanekaragaman Hayati yang disampaikan pada Persidangan Tingkat Tinggi COP 9 CBD yang berlangsung pada tanggal 29 Mai 2008, di Bonn, Jerman.

Distinguished Ministers and Delegates,
I make this statement on behalf of the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB). COP9, has around 500 participants from Indigenous Peoples and local communities from around the world.

1. The Convention on Biological Diversity, among the Rio Conventions, enjoys broad participation from among indigenous peoples and local communities. It has pioneered participatory mechanisms and elements of work for the protection and promotion of traditional knowledge, which is considered best practice among the environmental conventions. Accordingly, we look to the CBD to fulfil its role as the leading instrument for safeguarding biological and cultural diversity.
2. COP9 takes place at a time when the Earth, our home, and the web of life, our source and sustenance, are dying from our lack of love and care. Fundamental fault lines within the global economic and trading system, cannot be plastered over by relatively weak environmental mitigation measures. For example, sustainability criteria for agro-fuels, do not solve the underlying problem of energy over-consumption.

As we near 2010, we ask ourselves, what can be accomplished at COP9, and beyond, to move us along a countervailing path? Our message to Ministers, is that democratisation of governance and decision-making is a fundamental part of the solution.

1. ON PROTECTED AREAS, the historical failure of nature protection against local people, needs correction and restitution. Indigenous Peoples proclaim conservation by the people, of the people, and for the people as our contribution towards a global shift in conservation thinking. Legal recognition of Indigenous peoples’ territories and bio-cultural landscapes as conservation areas under local control and resource management, will increase the coverage, quality and equity of Protected Areas. This bold turn-around in conservation policy and approach, contained in the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas on expanded governance types over protected areas, directly addresses the conflicts between conservation and local people, which blights the target for a global system of protected areas. Indigenous peoples have enhanced plant and animal diversity, landscape diversity and ecosystem diversity, underpinned by indigenous cosmologies, values, and traditional knowledge. The world’s remaining areas of high biodiversity are to be found on indigenous peoples territories. Estimated to cover 20% of the Earth’s surface, these ancestral lands are de facto conservation areas under governance systems of indigenous authorities and local communities. Traditional livelihoods like hunting and gathering, pastoralism, reindeer herding, rotational farming or swidden cultivation, agro-forestry, and fishing, are time-tested resource management systems, highly adapted and responsive to the ecosystems in which they are practised. But in recent decades, these have come under tremendous pressures primarily from government policies and economic development, including through protected area enclosures, causing impoverishment and marginalisation. for example, the pygmy peoples of the central African rainforests.
2. ON BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE – Proposals for Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) are climate proposals for expanded “protected areas” aimed at carbon sequestration. A new round of “guns and guards” conservation can only exacerbate past problems. REDD proposals as currently designed will not deliver benefits to indigenous and local communities, so we need to be central to REDD reconceptualization and design. Alternative approaches are needed, focused on demarcation and securing indigenous peoples territories from external expropriation and deforestation. Secure land rights, can simultaneously deliver on customary sustainable use and resource management, poverty alleviation and biodiversity conservation and resilience. These in turn, contribute to mitigation and local adaptation to climate change. Targeted public financing, rather than carbon trading, is the appropriate funding mechanism, to secure the multiple benefits of indigenous territories. Funds for the fulfilment of the Millennium Development Goals, biodiversity protection and climate change mitigation and adaptation are most usefully targeted towards indigenous peoples and local communities, thus rewarding their historical and continuing role as keepers and custodians of biodiversity. All such projects must obtain the Free, prior and informed consent of indigenous peoples concerned, respecting their rights to say NO.
3. ON ACCESS AND BENEFIT-SHARING - COP9 has achieved a road map for negotiating an International Regime on Access and Benefit-sharing, including the participation of indigenous and local communities. A substantive breakthrough is still awaited, in the form of operative texts and legally binding provisions, upholding our rights, in both provider and user countries. Indigenous Peoples welcome the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, as fundamental in achieving the goals of the CBD, including in the fair and equitable sharing of benefits from the use of genetic resources and traditional knowledge.

Human rights are universal values consistent with the three objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity, and Indigenous Peoples call on all Parties to make good their commitments under the CBD, in partnership with indigenous peoples and local communities.

Thank you very much for your attention.

High-level Segment COP9
Statement by Joji Carino, Tebtebba Foundation
on behalf of the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity

"Berdaulat secara Politik, Mandiri secara Ekonomi, dan Bermartabat secara Budaya"