New York Climate Week 2024
Rainforest Foundation Norway at NYCW: Empowering Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
Together with our partners, we hosted several events at NYCW to showcase how Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities can be empowered to help the world stop deforestation and protect nature.
DEFORESTATION: Members of the Indigenous Xingu+ communicators network in Brazil monitoring and documenting deforestation in their territory. Rainforest Foundation Norway supports their efforts. Photo: Kamikia Kisedje
Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPs and LCs) have finally taken center stage in international climate and biodiversity policy. With the 16th Conference on the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Cali, Colombia, coming up, the time is now for articulating the ‘How’:
How can Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities be empowered to deliver central contributions for halting deforestation and protecting 30% of the world's terrestrial areas by 2030?
Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN) actively promoted this agenda and the Indigenous and local partners leading it on the frontlines of deforestation at New York Climate Week 2024 (NYCW).
Rainforest Foundation Norway’s mission is to support Indigenous Peoples and traditional populations of the world's rainforests in their efforts to protect their environment and fulfill their rights.
During NYCW, the Rainforest Foundation Norway delegation supported their partners, created opportunities for their presentation at events and engaged them in key meetings to advance their goals and aims.
“The science is clear! Rainforests managed by Indigenous peoples and local communities with rights to their land, have the least deforestation. Their management is a significant contribution towards protecting biodiversity and reducing climate change.
We must link people to the climate and nature agendas. The way to do it is to recognize the rights, needs and priorities of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities and empower them to be rightful stewards of their forests.”
Tana Lala-Pritchard, International Program Director at Rainforest Foundation Norway
Have a look at the information brochures and videos outlining our solutions:
Introducing ForEco
Protecting the home of Indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation
For more information, please contact:
Pedro Melo
Senior Institutional Partnerships Advisor, Institutional Partnerships
+47 936 80 037
pedro@rainforest.no
Nicolas Delaunay
External Relations Director
(+47) 457 39 480
nicolas@rainforest.no