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Addressee: Member states, Bodies and organizations of the UN system, UN environment Programme, UN Environment Assembly
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The Permanent Forum urges States and bodies and organizations of the United Nations system, including the United Nations Environment Programme and the United Nations Environment Assembly, to include indigenous peoples in a fully meaningful and effective manner in decision-making processes in all areas aimed at tackling marine litter and plastic pollution, and landscape/ecosystem degradation, including in programmes and partnerships and in the future negotiations of international instruments. Such efforts should include recognition of the traditional knowledge, practices and innovations of indigenous peoples, in particular indigenous women, in plans and actions to restore landscapes and ecosystems and to address marine litter and plastic pollution.
Responses
SCBD: WG8j-11 proposals for future work on Article 8(j) and related provisions highlight the importance of “conservation and human rights” in the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, incl.:
- voluntary guidelines,
with participation of indigenous peoples and local communities to strengthen policy framework for community-based conservation, protection and restoration practices led by indigenous peoples and local communities (e.g. s indigenous and community conserved areas (ICCAs) or traditional sacred sites.
- voluntary guidelines to facilitate integration of ICCAs into national networks of protected areas by recognizing ICCA territories (for full and effective participation of indigenous peoples)
- voluntary guidelines to promote/support traditional land-use change and land tenure by indigenous peoples and local communities and identify and promote best practices.
- Promote indigenous peoples and local communities, without formal access to land, to partner in the conservation, protection and restoration of biodiversity.
- voluntary guidelines to operationalize the indicator on land-use change and land tenure in the lands and waters of indigenous peoples and local communities (incl. mapping existing ICCAs, documenting legislation and recognition of indigenous land tenure rights and collective actions of and local communities contributing to the protection of biodiversity, and report on progress).
Final Report of UNPFII Session 20 (2021)
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