On Day 1 of COP28, Pema Wangmo Lama Mugum, an Indigenous youth activist from the Mugum Indigenous Nations in Asia, from the National Indigenous Women’s Federation – NIWF NEPAL learn the Worldwide Indigenous Peoples Discussion board on Local weather Change opening assertion.
“We decide to working with States to implement actual options primarily based on our information, practices, time-tested sciences, reciprocity with the pure world and Mom Earth, and the complete train of our rights. Our collective survival is at stake and our kids and future generations require motion immediately.” ~ Pema Wangmo Lama Mugum, Mugum Indigenous Nations
IIPFCC OPENING COP 28 PLENARY STATEMENT
Introduced by Pema Wangmo Lama Mugum, Nationwide Indigenous Girls’s Federation – NIWF NEPAL
We greet you in a great way (language of presenter).
Indigenous Peoples are dealing with growing disasters in our homelands as States fail of their dedication to restrict temperature rise to 1.5 levels Celsius. In 2023, this international cap was exceeded, threatening our methods of life in Asia and all over the world.
Our inherent, distinct, internationally-recognized rights are affirmed within the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. We won’t enable these rights to be diminished, undermined, mixed or confused in any manner.
We’ve the best to full and direct participation, together with for our youth, ladies, and information holders, in all UNFCCC processes. This contains the event of a robust Article 6 grievance mechanism, loss, and harm methods that prioritize prevention, simply transition that respects our rights and information, and the creation of finance and funding mechanisms which are designed by and instantly accessible to Indigenous Peoples from all areas.
Carbon markets and offsets, geo-engineering, mal-adaptation applied sciences, “Internet Zero” frameworks and “Nature-based options” don’t minimize emissions and as a substitute create new types of colonization, militarization, criminalization, and land loss. We name for a moratorium on such actions that violate our rights.
Actual options require drastic discount of greenhouse fuel emissions primarily based on the equitable part out of fossil fuels. States have dedicated to respect and promote the rights of Indigenous Peoples in local weather motion. The International Inventory Take should contemplate all components of the Paris Settlement.
We decide to work with States to implement actual options primarily based on our information, time-tested sciences, reciprocity with the pure world and Mom Earth, and the complete train of our rights. Our collective survival is at stake and our kids and future generations require motion immediately. Thanks.
