From October 31st – November 12th, the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) will be held in Glasgow, where decision makers, world leaders, and the civil society from all over will meet to redefine strategies to tackle climate change on a global scale. COP26 will be a defining moment of the year, especially as Land is Life’s side event brings Indigenous peoples in isolation (PIA) into the discussion of climate change challenges and solutions for the first time.
On November 5th, Land is Life will be co-hosting a side event, alongside members of the GTI-PIACI (a coalition of 11 Indigenous organizations and 8 non-governmental organizations working to ensure the protection of Peoples Living in Voluntary Isolation and Initial Contact (PIACI) from extractive industries, mega-projects, legal and illegal logging, the expansion of large-scale agriculture, forced assimilation, and acts and processes of genocide) that will hold a dialogue on the importance of PIACI protection in the context of climate change. Land is Life (as Secretariat of the GTI-PIACI), along with COICA, COIAB, FENAMAD, and AIDESEP, will present on the panel discussion and answer questions from the audience.
Our panelists will have the chance to provide their unique perspectives on specific cases where PIA groups’ way of life are under threat, as well as their arguments on why it’s critical to consider PIA territories as a special type of conserved area.
The event will introduce the regional context of Indigenous peoples in isolation, utilizing maps and visuals to illustrate the wide geographic distribution of the PIA territories across South America’s Amazon, Cerrado and Gran Chaco regions.
EVENT DETAILS
DATE: Friday, November 5th, 2021
TIME: 10:00 AM BST
LOCATION: COP26, Glasgow, Scotland, The Indigenous Pavilion
DETAILS: In-person translation will be available for Spanish, English, and Portuguese
MODERATOR: Vanessa Barham, Maria Jose Andrade, Land is Life – Member of the GTI-PIACI Secretariat.
COMMENTARY: Daniel Rodriguez, FENAMAD – Presentation of the Maps
PANELISTS:
- Julio Ricardo Cusurichi Palacios: Federación Nativa del Río Madre de Dios y Afluentes (FENAMAD) / Asociación Interétnica de Desarrollo de la Selva Peruana (AIDESEP)
- Francinara Baré / Elcio Manchineri: Coordenação das Organizações Indigenas da Amazônia Brasileira (COIAB)
- José Gregorio Diaz Mirabal: Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica (COICA)
- Alicia Cahuiya, Waorani leader: Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador (CONAIE)