Heritage Conservation and Sustainable Development Conference: from Parks and Protected Areas to Private Stewardship and Conservation Strategies, held in Ottawa, Quebec City, and Tadoussac, Canada, 14–20 May 1989 (original) (raw)
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In 1999, a report called Addressing the Underlying Causes of Deforestation and Forest Degradation was published. It resulted from a collaboration between the United Nations Intergovernmental Forum on Forests and a large group of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including the World Rainforest Movement (WRM). The aim of the process was to help policy makers better understand the underlying causes of deforestation and to suggest how they might address them. In 2019, amid continuing deforestation, the WRM International Secretariat decided to revisit this process, not only to update its findings, but also to pose the question: What lessons about forest activism has WRM learned in the past two decades? The self-critical reflection that has resulted, What Kind of Future for the World Rainforest Movement?, tries to address four questions: What are the underlying causes of deforestation today? Who should WRM be talking to about them? Are different concepts of forests required by the ways that WRM engages in forest struggles today? In what ways do WRM's new forms of engagement entail fresh approaches to the process of understanding itself? It is shared here in case it is helpful for other networks and NGOs who are also reviewing their movement strategies. Translations into Bahasa Indonesia, Spanish, French and Portuguese are forthcoming.
Why the UN must rely more on indigenous wisdom and less on fossil fuels.
Resilience.org, 2022
Over 100 scholars from around the world have co-signed a letter imploring the United Nations to abandon its rhetoric of pursuing the 'Sustainable Development Goals' (SDGs), given the lack of meaningful progress towards meeting them. The letter coincides with the United Nations Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) professionals meeting this week in Bali, Indonesia to discuss a new UN Global Assessment Report on disaster risk that was quite forthright in raising the existential threat of crossing multiple 'planetary boundaries' (Steffen et al., 2015) that can contribute to a "global collapse risk" (UNDRR, 2022, p52). At the same time, in recent years some UN agencies themselves have begun to emphasize the value of indigenous knowledge to address these systemic issues. This essay argues that if most complex life on Earth is to stand any chance of weathering the myriad storms that the 21 st century will unleash upon us, it is imperative that the United Nations rapidly shifts from its current focus on top-down interventions and more fully integrates local indigenous wisdom into every facet of its Disaster Risk Reduction plans. Such a shift would necessitate centering the following over and above the SDGs (some of which are guided by deleterious industrial development euphemistically marketed as 'green growth'): unsustainable resource use, and indigenous communities' proven capacity in ensuring long-term sustainability.
2008
This report evaluates the Ecuadorian proposal to have the international community compensate Ecuador for not exploiting the oil in the ITT area of Yasuní National Park. It includes the evaluation of this proposal in a broader context, assessing the possible consequences of the arrangement for future systems for international payment for biodiversity/rainforest conservation or payment for other ecosystem services as outlined in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Recently, the debate about international funding of rainforest conservation and payment for ecosystem services in general has received new momentum thanks to the climate change negotiations. Although the debate goes back several decades, the content has now been broadened to include at least five major concerns: carbon sequestration and uptake, biodiversity conservation, maintenance and balance of other ecosystem services, safeguarding the livelihoods of local and indigenous people, and adaptation to climate change.
This research project examines both the importance of addressing GHG emissions from deforestation and the reasons why sovereign governments have been ineffective as agents of earth system governance in addressing this problem. The role of non-state actors as alternative agents of earth system governance is explored through an empirical analysis of the largely successful rainforest preservation agreement between the WWF and April. This agreement is then compared and contrasted with an unproductive tropical rainforest protection accord between WWF and Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) in order to ascertain what the most essential elements of successful rainforest preservation agreements might be. This research lends support to the argument that, in the absence of state sanctioned environmental governance institutions with the means and or the political will to address environmental degradation, non-state actors can and will exercise agency pertaining to earth system governance through private contract agreements between environmental Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Multi-National Corporations (MNCs).
A rewarding experience in many ways: The 3rd World Congress of Environmental History
Historia Ambiental Latinoamericana y Caribeña (HALAC) revista de la Solcha
The 3rd World Congress of Environmental History, held in Florianópolis, Brazil had the theme: “Convergences: The Global South and the Global North in the Era of Great Acceleration”. The short paper gives an overview of the rewards such congresses can bring. It specifically deals with the plenary talks by Robert Billot and Brigitte Baptiste, highlights the role of scholarly co-operation and makes a case for the opportunity offered by such congresses to review the environment of the hosting country, for which the plenary roundtables, the excursions, and field trips and comparative panels are referred to as examples. World congresses might have an environmental cost, but they do provide unique opportunities for scholarly exchange, in terms of themes, methods, conceptual approaches, and sources used. Behaving in an environmentally conscious way but at the same time enabling and fostering international and intergenerational exchange is a challenge that will have to be taken up in the fut...
Should we include avoidance of deforestation in the international response to climate change
Carbon forestry: who …, 2005
The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) is working in more than 30 developing countries. Millions of the population of these countries are forest-dependant and relatively poor. With its three programs dealing with forest governance, livelihoods, and environmental services and sustainable use of forests CIFOR is well placed to facilitate a multi-stakeholder process, where practitioners and policy-makers working in different natural and social systems could interact. The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), supported CIFOR to organize a workshop on Carbon Sequestration and Sustainable Livelihoods held in Bogor on 16-17 February 2005. The event was among those recognized by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat that marked the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol on 16 February 2005. The proceedings is a collection of the lessons learned from a number of case studies ranging from small to large scale projects, from community-based to corporate operations, and from development to conservation activities. Although most projects are still in their infancy stage and many more lessons to be learned it was generally agreed that bundling climate change and community development projects is a strategic approach to support sustainable livelihoods. Some emerging applied research and policy responses were identifi ed and need further elaboration. CIFOR remains committed in this area in the years to come and long to see if carbon forestry will be benefi ted by rural and forest-dependent communities. We would like to acknowledge the authors for the papers contributed in this proceeding. The comments and criticisms of the reviewers are also gratefully thanked and appreciated. Among them are Carol Colfer, Dede William, Esteve Corbera, and most authors of the contributed papers. Some of the works presented in the workshop were based on CIDA-funded activities under the Canadian Climate Change Development Fund (CCCDF). We are also grateful for the active interaction of 70 participants who represented 20 nationalities and are based in 15 countries. The present of Indonesian and Canadian government offi cials and donor agencies based in Indonesia are also thanked and appreciated.
Emerging Challenges on Climate Change, Forestry and Sustainable Development RP Vol IX No 3 - MMIX
The major constraints to the forestry sector in particular and the live natural resources in general are: absence of a clearly defined forest policy, lack of strong and stable institution responsible for the forestry sector, lack of the past government's recognition of the seriousness of the situation and lack of a participatory approach in the implementation of social forestry programmes. Unless the above listed constraints are solved, there will be little hope for the forestry sector to bring about a significant and positive impact on the development and conservation of the country's forest resources. The suggested solutions and strategies to overcome these are formulation of appropriate and clear environmental and forest policies are a prerequisite for successful forestry development in Ethiopia. Key areas that require clear policy statement include the allocation of existing state forests into protection and production forests, increased autonomy for forest management institutes, incentives and rewards in promotion of private forestry development, and people's participation and benefit sharing of local communities. The active participation of local communities is quite important in order to develop those forest areas that will be set aside for protection and production. On climate change, BBC asserts that " Europe's leading insurance companies are now so worried by global warming; that they are likely to use their financial muscle to get governments and the world's oil companies to do more to cut greenhouse gas emissions. While this philosophical debate will continue to flourish in the corridors of the Ivy League, it is important to have national legislations such as the Bolivian one to support processes which empower rural people and their institutions, strengthen human and institutional capacity of community organisations to further the proliferation of communities of practice on indigenous think and improve their institutional capacity to adapt and develop new methods to collate and disseminate deepened knowledge, that must be translated into practical tools for endogenous sustainable local management of natural resources, by rural people themselves. Nonetheless, there is a caveat to it. Structural modernist constraints will indubitably continue to militate against possibilities of People to People driven sustainable development and may be reinforced by specific, more or less conscious uncertainty and complexity. As an interval between one regime of development ideology to another during which competing actors claim and contest for primacy of ideas, such transitions may be characterised by rules and forms of engagement that are in constant flux and may lead to any number of unpredictable alternative outcomes...
2001
Forest Peoples Programme. He is an anthropologist and human rights worker with over thirty years experience working on collective rights, policy making and the challenges of implementation. One outcome of this dialogue was that TFD commissioned a review of company best practice to assess what forestry companies were actually doing to resolve conflicts, particularly over land. FPIC emerged from the study as an acknowledged 'best practice' that companies should use to avoid conflicts. Moreover, the study found, the rights-based negotiation approach required to respect FPIC, when applied retrospectively, can also help resolve existing land conflicts by allowing renegotiations and the settlement of disputes. 3 During more recent TFD dialogues, consensus has likewise built that respect for the right to FPIC is crucial for effectiveness in Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). 4 The principle was highlighted in the TFD's Statement on Forests and Climate Change, 5 which set out a broadly shared view of how forests should be incorporated into climate mitigation practices. The ensuing dialogue stream on REDD financing stressed the importance of safeguarding indigenous peoples' rights and adhering to the principle of FPIC. 6 Likewise FPIC has emerged as a key principle in providing an effective framework for those Investing in Locally Controlled Forests. 7 So far, so good. But given that recognition of the right to FPIC is most vital when statutory law and forest governance is weak, much more guidance is needed on how to respect this right in practice. In recognition of this gap, TFD has decided to go ahead with a further dialogue stream specifically to address these practical challenges. This scoping paper is a first contribution to this new dialogue stream. Rather than being intended to answer, or lay to rest, issues of contention, it is written in such as way as to open up contentious and challenging issues for discussion, to highlight areas where there are already different views, summarise some of the lessons learned and to provide some basic lines of enquiry as the dialogue stream begins to engage with national and local interlocutors, including in particular indigenous peoples. It is not intended to be a full and final treatment of the issue, which is in any case impossible, as respect for the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent is a rapidly evolving field where laws, norms and practices are in a dynamic phase of definition. 8