Indigenous leaders renew call for direct financing as countries increase deforestation funds

Record ID: 1696444

  • Title: Indigenous leaders renew call for direct financing as countries increase deforestation funds
  • Date: 7th November 2022
  • Summary: SHARM EL SHEIKH, EGYPT (NOVEMBER 7, 2022) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) YOUTH DELEGATE WITH GLOBAL ALLIANCE OF TERRITORIAL COMMUNITIES (GATC), NADINO CALAPUCHA, SAYING: “Obviously we’ve heard a lot about climate change in the news and from the press, but on a day-to-day basis it’s the indigenous communities who experience it, and in my case, it’s very bad. It is not only a climate change, it is a change in structure that is affecting indigenous towns, in this case, we are talking of constant rain which last year during the pandemic flooded the Amazon basin, all the rivers in the Amazon basin overflowed. On the other hand, you have droughts. So, these are things that we are experiencing every day.”
  • Embargoed: 21st November 2022 15:50
  • Keywords: CLIMATE CHANGE COP27 DEFORESTATION FORD FOUNDATION INDIGENOUS PEOPLE REPORT
  • Location: SHARM EL SHEIKH, EGYPT / PAPUA, INDONESIA / AMAZON STATE, BRAZIL
  • City: SHARM EL SHEIKH, EGYPT / PAPUA, INDONESIA / AMAZON STATE, BRAZIL
  • Country: Egypt
  • Topics: Climate Change,Environment,General News,Middle East,Government / Politics,Climate Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA004753507112022RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Representatives from indigenous communities renewed their demand to receive direct funding on Monday (November 7) as pledges to end deforestation by 2030 were reinforced at COP27.
    More than 25 countries at the climate talks launched a group they said would ensure they hold each other accountable for a pledge to end deforestation by 2030, and announced billions of dollars to finance their efforts.
    "Indigenous people have been always considered as incapable to manage the funding, while they have been capable to protect our climate, and the environment and I think they are the best person to get the money," said Adamu Amadu, a delegate with REPALEAC (Network of Indigenous Peoples for the Sustainable Management of Forest Ecosystems in Central Africa) from Cameroon.
    One year after more than 140 leaders at a summit in Glasgow promised to end deforestation by the end of the decade, a coalition of 25 governments and charities said that 19% of the $1.7 billion promised to indigenous communities to promote land rights and forest protection had already been paid out. However, indigenous leaders denounce the frustration of having to wait for funding to go through government organisations, stressing that releasing funds straight to the communities would considerably shorten the process and help the fight against the day-to-day effects of climate change.
    Progress since Glasgow has been patchy, with few countries instituting more aggressive policies on deforestation and financing to help preserve them lagging, a non-profit assessment found last month.
    “On the donors' side, we need to build our own capacity. We need to learn more and listen more to what indigenous people and communities are telling us," Kevin Currey of the Ford Foundation's Natural Resources and Climate Change team, which is one of the private donors, told Reuters
    The first meeting of the newly instituted Forest and Climate Leaders' Partnership (FCLP), initially chaired by the United States and Ghana, was held on Monday. The group - which includes the United Kingdom, Congo,
    Pakistan, Japan, and others - account for roughly 35% of the world's forests and aim to meet twice a year to track progress.
    (Production: Fanny Brodersen, Simon Jessop, Chiara Rodriquez)
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