Just Energy Transition and Indigenous Peoples

Publisher: Indigenous Debates
Number of pages: 63
Publication language: English
Financially supported by: IWGIA
Release year: 2025

Tags: Indigenous Debates

The global energy transition is generating profound contradictions that reveal how renewable energy production risks perpetuating the same extractive patterns that promoted the current climate crisis. While the transition to clean energy is essential for planetary survival, its trajectory threatens to intensify pressures on Indigenous Peoples. Indeed, more than half of the world’s reserves of critical minerals are located in their territories.

 
The voices resonating throughout this special edition are unequivocal: a transition that sacrifices Indigenous lands, pollutes sacred waters, and violates fundamental human rights is neither just nor sustainable. It is the continuation of inequity under a new, green banner. Indigenous Peoples remind the world that the true response to our planetary crisis calls not only for new technologies but for new relationships with the Earth, with one another, and with those whose lifeways have nurtured biodiversity for millennia. As we face this pivotal moment, Indigenous voices, knowledge, and leadership must be the foundation of any path forward.
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