Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change, Traditional Knowledge and the new UN BBNJ Treaty

The high seas hold some of the greatest reservoirs of biodiversity, covering two-thirds of the world’s oceans

Only 1% is protected.

Indigenous Peoples and our Traditional Knowledge can be instrumental in addressing climate change, and protecting biodiversity in the high seas for generations to come. That's why our voices are essential in the new United Nations BBNJ Treaty 🌏

👉🏽 Join our Talanoa this Monday and find out how.

Speakers include; Salaseini Tagicakibau; Roberto Mukaro Borrero; Tina Ngata The Non-Plastic Māori; Ghazali Ohorella; and Clement Yow Mulalap. Participants are encouraged to also share their thoughts and ideas in the talanoa.

SIDE EVENT DETAILS:

"Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change, Traditional Knowledge and the new UN BBNJ Treaty".

Monday 22nd April, 14:00 - 15:30
Amartya Sen Room
Level 10, UNDP FF building
304 East 45th Street,
New York

UN SG Summit: Invitation to Civil Society to collaborate on Nature-Based Solutions

Dear colleagues and friends,

The UN Climate Action Summit, being convened by UN Secretary-General on 23 September 2019 provides an opportunity for redefining people’s relationship with nature. ‘Nature-Based Solutions’ can offer a crucial response to climate change and sustainable development at the scale and pace that is needed: to make this transformation possible, the necessary actions must be clearly identified, along with robust implementation systems and finance on an unprecedented scale. The Summit provides an opportunity is for all of us from government, finance, business, civil society and international organizations to contribute to collective efforts that will tip the balance – reversing climate change, delivering multiple social, economic and environmental outcomes and benefiting lives and livelihoods everywhere. 

The role of civil society will be absolutely essential to build upon existing projects and experience from the field.

 The United Nations Secretary-General has established nine coalitions comprised of national governments who are joined by other stakeholders.  Their remit is to undertake preparatory work for the Summit and to ensure ‘transformative outcomes, of which Nature Based Solutions (NBS) is one. The coalitions are each preparing propositions that will be offered to world leaders at the Summit: once endorsed they will be followed up through the climate COPs and other intergovernmental processes.  It is anticipated that propositions, when implemented, will be transformative, have significant impact while reflecting public interest, contribute to equitable development, and take into account social and political considerations.  

 The co-leads of the NBS coalition are China and New Zealand. They envisage that contributions to the NBS theme could include (but not be limited to) scaling up the preservation and restoration of forests, land and marine ecosystems; conservation and restoration of wetlands; comprehensive treatment of soil erosion; prevention of desertification, climate resilient infrastructure and connectivity; eco-corridors and protection of biodiversity; climate compatible agriculture and food systems; regenerating ecosystems of the ocean and natural reserve systems with national parks as the mainstay.  

 The NBS co-leads and facilitation team would like to invite you to collaborate on nature-based solutions by sharing proposals which could be endorsed at the Summit and implemented in the lead up to the UNFCCC and CBD COPs. 

 You will find in the document attached here some guidance which will help you for writing the proposal and some explanation about the submission process.

This first round of consultation will be open until the 24th of April 2019.

 We very much look forward to receiving your contributions. 

 Please feel free to share widely across your networks of partners interested in nature-based solutions and climate action.  We would like to encourage a wide and inclusive engagement in the development of the proposition incorporating NBS in climate action.  This engagement should draw upon the wide range and innovative brilliance of the work underway on Nature-Bases Solutions.  

 Thank you.

 Best regards,

The Nature-Based Solutions Facilitation Team

NBSteam2019@gmail.com

LCIPP: Update on FWG1 and thematic workshop in June

Dear Friends of the LCIPP

 We are pleased to confirm that the first meeting of the Facilitative Working Group (FWG) will take place on 14-16 June, and it will be held at a venue in Bonn. More information about the venue/registration will be made available on the webpage as it becomes available. The meeting will be open to observers. A separate registration (from the SB registration) will be undertaken for the FWG meeting.

 In addition, the mandated LCIPP in-session thematic workshop is planned for for 19 June (the date will be confirmed soon when the SBSTA overview schedule is published), more information, including about which room it will be held in, will be made available on the website soon. Further LCIPP activities are also being organized, we will continue to keep you informed.

 Nominations to the FWG: nominations are still pending for 3 Party representatives (from Eastern Europe, WEOG and the LDCs). Nominations for 5 alternates are also pending (from Eastern Europe, WEOG, LDCs, SIDS and Asia Pacific). Here is the list of membership.

 Wishing you all a good day,

 Kind regards,

Tiffany

 Tiffany Hodgson
Programme Officer
Science and Review Sub-Programme,

Adaptation Programme

THodgson@unfccc.int

Participation in the Strategy Meeting for IP Engagement to the UN Climate Summit, 23 Sep, NY

TO: IP delegations coming to the PF session in NY 
ATT: Participation in the Strategy Meeting for IP Engagement to the UN Climate Summit, 23 Sep, NY

DATE: 25 Apr, NY

TIME: 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.

VENUE: TBC

Background:

The UN General Assembly  will hold a one-day Climate Summit in September 23, 2019, NY. The expected outcomes will be partnership and agreed actions' promotion through 9  different tracks/coalitions, each of them co-led by minimum 2 countries in a partnership with the UN. The mandate of the coalition is to build public and private partnerships and come with concrete proposals. This will be 2-3 initiatives per coalition.

There will not be a political declaration and nothing to negotiate. It is only listing of proposals that will be announced. The Summit is taking place at a moment of urgent action and response.

9 Tracks/Coalitions 

Nature based solutions: China@New Zealand supported by UNEP

Resilience and adaptation:  UK@Egypt supported by UNDP

Energy: Denmark@Ethiopia

Social and political drivers: Peru@ Spain supported by ILO, DESA, WHO, Global Compact

Mitigation: Chile@Japan

Youth and mobilization: Ireland @ Marshall Islands

Climate Finance: Jamaica@France@Qatar supported by the WB

Infrustructure cities and local action: Kenya@Turkey

Industry transition: India @ Sweden

CS Modality:  Sep 23rd - only plenary of the General Assembly. 

There might be roundtables on the weekend before the Summit.

Objectives of IP strategic meeting

1.      to develop one common position and strategy re the CS between all 7 regions

2.       to coordinate and develop a road map on the way to CS, NY (PF - Bonn - Abu-Dhabi - NY)

3.       to collaborate closely with Ambassador de Alba as a Special Envoy of the Climate Summit

4.       to create alliance with coalitions leads and lobby IP solutions

Rodion Sulyandziga, 
On behalf of IP delegation having a meeting with Dr.Alba within the Copenhagen Conference on SDG and Climate Change, 1-3 Apr           

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Rodion Sulyandziga
Director, Ph.D
Center for support of indigenous peoples of the North (CSIPN)
NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
rodion@csipn.ru
skype: rodion_ritc
http://www.csipn.ru