Around 60% of voters said oil reserves in the Yasuní National Park should be left in the ground in binding vote
The Green Climate Fund suspended a $117 million forest conservation project in Nicaragua over escalating violence against indigenous people.
An upcoming summit on protecting the Amazon has become the focus of a Indigenous and civil society-led campaign to set up an exclusion zone for fossil fuels
As Morocco faces increasingly extreme temperatures, indigenous communities in the country’s southeast suffer the brunt of the climate crisis
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Indigenous people protect the forests but the organisation writing up a rule-book for high-quality carbon offsets has not adequately consulted them
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Indigenous people in Nicaragua have accused a Green Climate Fund project of exacerbating violence with settlers invading their land
The CEO of the Climate Investment Funds has been picked to head the Green Climate Fund as its board faces its first complaint case
Cindy Kobei talks about growing up as an indigenous person in Kenya’s Mau Forest and what has changed with land rights issues and the climate crisis
In Hasdeo Aranya, indigenous people have been resisting coal mines for a decade and allege their consent for new projects has been forged
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In the Northwest Territories, Canada’s first indigenous protected reserve is bringing together scientific methods and traditional knowledge
As the planet warms and biodiversity collapses, those encouraging and profiting from the destruction of the Earth must be charged with ecocide
As talks on a global deal to protect nature begin in Nairobi, Kenya, countries need to create a new conservation designation for Indigenous Peoples’ land
Rights NGO Survival International has accused the government of “shocking violence” and evicting Maasai people from their land to make way for trophy hunting
The draft biodiversity agreement references indigenous peoples’ rights but a proposal to streamline the text could strip more specific language from the targets
Two initiatives will release standards for the voluntary carbon market this year, while campaigners denounce offsetting as a “scam” that delays real climate action
The case could set an international precedent for indigenous people to control resources on their land, which they say is critical to climate action
The Paiwan community left their typhoon-hit village in 2009 for a new town, where they are alienated from their heritage