Resisting False Solutions- Safeguarding the Right to Land & FPIC to advance climate justice and biodiversity protection

Start Date: 
Friday, October 21, 2022 - 05:00
End Date: 
Thursday, October 20, 2022 - 06:00
Organizer: 
Natural Justice, The African CSOs Biodiveristy Alliance, ESCR-Net

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Resisting False Solutions- Safeguarding the Right to Land & FPIC to advance climate justice and biodiversity protection

Date: 

October 22, 2022

Time: 
https://bit.ly/Falsesolutionstime

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Youtube Live Stream: https://www.youtube.com/user/ESCRNet

Description:

The planet’s biodiversity is in unprecedented decline with around 1 million animal and plant species now threatened with extinction. Meanwhile, scientists have issued in successive reports a red alert on the climate crisis. These two crises are closely interconnected and there is no possibility of transformative solutions if these environmental emergencies are addressed in isolation. The multilateral spaces where solutions to address these crises are discussed may differ, but a cross-cutting reality is that these accelerating and mutually reinforcing crises, their structural drivers, and even certain solutions or rather ‘false solutions’ for example, fortress conservation or carbon markets, seriously impact Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ human and environmental rights, especially rights to land, free prior and informed consent and self-determination.


This session will explore rights violations perpetrated and perpetuated by false solutions promoted for climate change mitigation and conservation, and often enabled by corporate capture (the widespread phenomenon of powerful corporations exerting undue influence over government decision-making processes that impact public interest and fundamental rights); highlight the intersection of biodiversity justice and climate justice particularly in the context of the right to land; and share the urgent need for advocacy alignment in relation to the post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework and the Paris Climate Agreement.

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