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Creating a Cosmopolitics of Climate Change

BY ROSALYN BOLD FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS

The responses that Western society has implemented to address climate change are not sufficient. Other actors and knowledge are needed, and Indigenous Peoples' ancestral knowledge could play a central role. However, diverse voices tend to be silenced in debates in international fora. Anthropology can contribute to adopting a cosmopolitics of climate change that allows us to integrate multiple worldviews in order to understand and address the problem more holistically.

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Honouring Indigenous Peoples’ Perspectives of Climate Change Impacts: Research and Policy Implications

VICTORIA REYES-GARCÍA AND CONSORCIO LICCI FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS

As key actors in climate knowledge and impacts, Indigenous Peoples should have a more significant role in how the international community addresses climate change. Especially when Indigenous Peoples suffer most from forest fires, droughts affecting their food sovereignty, melting Arctic ice and rising sea levels on islands. At this point, the inclusion of Indigenous Peoples in decision-making and scientific research needs to be improved.

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Indigenous Peoples Fighting Climate Change in Brazil: the Gap between the National Adaptation Plan and Autonomous Strategies

MARTHA FELLOWS Y SINEIA DO VALE PARA DEBATES INDÍGENAS

Brazil is experiencing unprecedented extreme climate events, such as severe droughts and wildfires. Meanwhile, the federal government is reviewing its National Adaptation Plan, which represents an opportunity to include Indigenous perspectives in climate policy and change the future scenario. It took more than 500 years for Indigenous Peoples in Brazil to have their own Ministry. The question is: how many more will be needed to decolonize climate policies?

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Regeneration for Action: Indigenous Youth’s Message in Climate Change Debates

BY CAMILA ROMERO PEIRET FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS

Every year, Indigenous youth’s participation in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is becoming ever more visible. And yet, although the international community recognizes their voices and the key role they are playing in defending their rights, young people continue to face multiple barriers to their full and effective participation. Such barriers are pushing new generations to pioneer collective proposals that seek to remind the world of the urgency of regenerating the fabric in climate action and of the importance of adopting a comprehensive rights-based approach.

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Charting a Just Transition for Indigenous Peoples

“We are Earth. Earth is us.”

Indigenous Peoples have endured centuries of violence, exploitation, and displacement - facing murder, enslavement and forced relocation, while their lands have been militarized and criminalized. Despite this, their rights are repeatedly sidelined in the global push to tackle the climate crisis. International summits and national plans for a sustainable future promise progress but often exclude those most affected by these decisions: Indigenous Peoples. Even when it concerns the lands they have protected for generations, their perspectives are ignored or marginalized. Yet they remain resilient; continuing to safeguard their territories and traditions. With their holistic worldview and deep-rooted understanding of nature and sustainability, Indigenous Peoples hold invaluable insights for a green transition, offering solutions that are not only ecologically sound but also culturally and socially just.

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