Climate ChangeClimate change will affect all of us. Climate change exacerbates the difficulties already faced by Indigenous communities including:
Indigenous peoples will be among the first to face the direct consequences of climate change, due to their dependence upon, and close relationship, with the environment and its resources. As the 2008 Native Title Report points out the following human rights will be negatively affected by climate change: Right to life Right to adequate food Right to health Human security Rights of indigenous peoples Right to water
These pose threats to the health, cultures and livelihoods of Indigenous peoples both here in The United Nations Framework Convention (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol are the key international mechanisms for setting targets to curb climate change. In addition, in 2009 the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP-15) negotiated an aknowledge The Copenhagen Accord. The International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change (IPFCC) formed in response to international negotiations to climate change and provided an international indigenous position to climate change through the Barcelona Statement and Anchorage Declaration.
Climate change will also heavily impact on the worlds biological diversity. Along with the UNFCCC,negotiations and discussions on climate change are also occuring through the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The video below outlines some of the relationships between the UNFCCC and the CBD.
Please read on for further information on: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change
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