Nov 3 2021
This is a sneak peek of a full report on The Risks and Threats of ‘Nature-based Climate Solutions’ for Indigenous Peoples which will be released soon. We are releasing this Sneak Peek, just in time for the COP 26 climate negotiations in Glasgow, even before the rest of the report is complete. We decided to do so to share with others what we’ve learned so far: that Nature-based Climate Solutions, which may seem like a promising new direction in climate policy, appear to be yet another false solution…For the last century, the colonial governments and industries have sought our lands to extract the oil, mine the minerals, and cut down trees. Now they seek our lands to store the carbon pollution these processes have created and to address the climate crisis that they are responsible for.