The Anchorage Declaration

From 20-24 April, 2009, Indigenous representatives from the Arctic, North America, Asia, Pacific, Latin America, Africa, Caribbean and Russia met in Anchorage, Alaska for the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change. We thank the Ahtna and the Dena’ina Athabascan Peoples in whose lands we gathered.

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Please support the following statements by sending an email to raymondAHTtebtebba.org:

• Manila Declaration of the International Conference on Extractive Industries and Indigenous Peoples - [English] [Spanish]

• Letter to the Prime Minister of Canada regarding the adoption of the new Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Strategy for the Canadian International Extractive Sector - [English]

TEBTEBBA Statement at the Contact Group of the AWG-LCA on Mitigation

April 8, 2009, Bonn, Germany

Thank you Mr. Chairman for giving me the floor to speak on behalf of indigenous peoples at this Contact Group session on Mitigation.

Last week and in earlier interventions we spoke on this same issue and reiterated that in undertaking mitigation measures there should be a recognition of the historical and present contributions of indigenous peoples in mitigating climate change. We are referring here to our continuing practice of low-carbon and neutral - carbon lifestyles and traditional livelihoods. We are the ones who have protected our forests from rampant deforestation and prevented the oil, gas and coal in our territories from being extracted even at the cost of life and limb.

TEBTEBBA Intervention on the Workshop on Agriculture at the 5th Session of the AWG-LCA

Bonn Climate Change Talks
4 April 2009

Thank you Madame Chair for allowing indigenous peoples to make a presentation at this workshop. As you are aware, many indigenous peoples in all parts of the world are still very much engaged in traditional livelihoods in agriculture and agroforestry. These include rotational agriculture or swidden agriculture, high mountain agriculture, hunting and gathering, and pastoralism.