Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities are essential to protecting our food systems, yet they are under severe threat from industrial agriculture and rampant land grabbing. From their perspective, COP16 presents a crucial moment to protect our food systems and the knowledge that sustains them.
Hosted by the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities during New York Climate Week 2024, the Shandia Forum will bring together Indigenous Peoples and Local Community leaders with government, philanthropy, and private sector leaders to reshape climate and biodiversity financing.
As we face growing pressures from oil, monoculture, mining, and other extractive industries, the climate crisis is intensifying, especially in indigenous and local community territories. Every day, indigenous and community leaders put their lives at risk to protect their lands and to denounce land grabbing and human rights violations. The degradation of our ecosystems and the destruction of biodiversity severely threaten our culture, our access to food and water, and our very lives. In response to these escalating challenges, we are proud to present our strategic plan for 2024 and 2025.
Indigenous Peoples of Brazil met with over a dozen of Brasilia’s ambassadors to call on governments to support their agenda towards COP30 with swift action to stop deforestation and violence in indigenous lands.
Indigenous land titling in Brazil has fallen behind as president Lula had promised to complete 14 processes in his first 100 days of government, but had only titled 10 in over a year in power.
As UN negotiators debate how to invest trillions, experiences and evidence presented at Dubai event suggest funds channeled through third parties ‘evaporate’ before reaching communities shown to excel in restoring forests and preventing deforestation.
The Global Alliance is ready to take centre stage at COP28. We Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities must be included in discussions about climate change. Check this page for information about where we’re going to be, articles to stay up to date about the negotiations and conversations at COP28, and subscribe to our newsletter to get round-ups directly in your inbox.
The workshop aims to improve funding access for Indigenous Peoples and local communities, addressing existing gaps in data collection and monitoring. Our goal is to come out with actionable recommendations, emphasising systematic monitoring for informed policy, accountability, and impactful strategies to direct funding to the peoples and communities protecting the world’s richest ecosystems.
This is a story of the peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon, an account of the arrival of COVID-19 deep in the rainforest, and how communities came together and shared their knowledge to confront the pandemic and its far-reaching impacts.
The Global Alliance of Territorial Communities is excited to take centre stage at New York Climate Week, reaffirming how we indigenous peoples and local communities are the guardians of the Earth’s biodiversity and thus of humanity’s future. New York Climate Week presents an opportunity to forge a path towards a greener, more resilient world for generations to come.