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Indigenous Forest Carbon Fund Launched (Cool Earth)

Around 1300 members of Brazil's Suruí Amazon nation have launched the first ever indigenous forest carbon fund at this month's annual UN Climate Change Summit meeting in Mexico. The project evolved from an initial contact between Almir Narayamoga, a young Suruí leader. And Forest Trends, a...

13 December, 2010

Will a UN Climate-Change Solution Help Kuna Yala? (National Geographic)

Faced with sea level rising, one indigenous community weighs a plan to mitigate climate change. In northeast Panama's lush tropical forests, a sovereign indigenous comarca is raising the same question that delegates at the Cancún climate conference are raising about a plan for avoided deforestation:...

08 December, 2010

Should we alter our constitution to recognise indigenous Australians? (Sydney Morning Herald)

Most Australians will embrace the spirit behind the proposed recognition of the indigenous people in the constitution. To achieve this, however, will be more complex than many realise. Section 128 of the constitution requires support from both a national majority and a majority of voters in...

05 December, 2010