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Forest peoples’ rights key to reducing emissions from deforestation

New research shows rights-based approaches necessary and cost-effective; call for independent advisory and auditing to support UN action on climate change [...more]

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Indigenous peoples hardest hit by climate change describe impacts

Indigenous peoples have contributed the least to world greenhouse gas emissions and have the smallest ecological footprints on Earth. Yet they suffer the worst impacts not only of climate change, but also from some of the international mitigation measures being taken, according to organizers of a United Nations University co-hosted meeting April 3 in Darwin, Australia. [...more]

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New dawn for Aborigines?

By working as a teacher in Australia's rural communities, Sinem Saban came to understand the forces that keep the country's Aborigines at a disadvantage to the rest of society. She is currently making a documentary about the treatment of the Aborigines at the hands of the government – specifically its drive to take ownership of their ancestral land and force them to pay rent as tenants. [...more]

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