{"id":240764,"date":"2023-12-12T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/to-achieve-a-forest-positive-planet-prioritise-rights\/"},"modified":"2023-12-12T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T13:30:00","slug":"to-achieve-a-forest-positive-planet-prioritise-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/to-achieve-a-forest-positive-planet-prioritise-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"To Achieve a \u2018Forest Positive\u2019 Planet, Prioritise Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\t\t\tWith the climate crisis threatening to turn tracts of the lush Amazon into dry grassland, companies need to put in place policies that respect Indigenous Peoples and local communities\u2019 rights
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By Didier Bergeret<\/p>\n

While environmental and social sustainability challenges are often viewed separately, they are inherently connected. For Indigenous Peoples, this is especially true. Both their personal safety and conservation efforts are threatened by a lack of formal land titles and legal protection when they try to defend their homes.<\/p>\n

In a milestone for Indigenous Peoples\u2019 rights, Brazil\u2019s Supreme Court recently ruled in their favour in a case known as \u201cMarco Temporal\u201d \u2013 meaning their rights to ancestral lands were endorsed by the state. This decision follows the landmark summit in Brazil in August, when President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva brought the leaders of eight nations \u2013 including Colombia, Peru and Venezuela \u2013 together with thousands of Indigenous activists to hear their hopes and fears concerning the rainforest\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

These events provide hopeful opportunities to catalyse action around protecting the world\u2019s forests \u2013 the extraordinary biosphere that is home to many Indigenous Peoples. As a UN report highlights, Indigenous Peoples are the ultimate experts when it comes to forest conservation. They have practised it for millennia.<\/p>\n

Yet despite this integral role in managing and safeguarding the Amazon rainforest throughout most of the course of human history, Indigenous Peoples are often excluded from talks on how we protect it.<\/p>\n

The descendants of these societies are now the communities most severely affected by deforestation and the climate emergency. They are living on the front line of our ecosystems \u2013 with their unique insights into how to turn the situation around often going unheard. It is crucial that we respect their knowledge, culture and rights \u2013 especially considering that they own, occupy or use about a quarter of the world\u2019s land.<\/p>\n

The corporate world has a key role to play in raising Indigenous voices and creating a forest-positive world. A large proportion of consumer brands and retailers rely on forest ecosystems to provide essential commodities \u2013 like paper, pulp and packaging \u2013 while millions of the people employed in the global supply chains of consumer goods companies live and work in forests.<\/p>\n

Companies should be integrating social obligations into their forest commitments, particularly in terms of any potential changes of land use that would affect Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Respect for their ancestral lands must go hand in hand with an open and inclusive approach that aims to protect their culture and improve their livelihoods.<\/p>\n

Every business in global supply chains should make the same commitment. Companies should ensure not only that the products they source from suppliers are forest positive, but that all the products the suppliers create are forest positive too.<\/p>\n

That means putting Indigenous Peoples at the heart of all forest-based products and commodities. We must put in place policies and actions that advance respect for Indigenous Peoples and local communities\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n

At The Consumer Goods Forum, we are striving to ensure that all businesses prioritise the rights of Indigenous Peoples and work closely with them to protect the world\u2019s forests \u2013 through our Forest Positive and Human Rights Coalitions of Action.<\/p>\n

As some of the world\u2019s largest consumer goods retailers and manufacturers, our members are committed to collaborating with Indigenous communities, peers, supply chain partners, government bodies and civil society organizations to stop the collapse of the world\u2019s forests.<\/p>\n

There is no more time to waste. New scientific research from Rutgers University adds to the growing number of studies outlining that the escalating climate crisis risks turning vast tracts of the Amazon rainforest into dry grassland.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s not forget that the world\u2019s greatest forest stabilizes the global climate. Its loss would result in unprecedented volumes of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere and prove catastrophic for us all.<\/p>\n

The way forward is to listen to Indigenous Peoples, the original guardians of the forest.<\/p>\n

This content is was originally published with Corporate Knights under the same title. You can view the article online at corporateknights.com\/category-climate\/forest-positive-planet-prioritize-rights-of-indigenous-peoples\/<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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