The Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Engagement Forum - New Living Strategy Review
Both Indigenous Peoples and local communities are essential partners in the voluntary carbon market and in addressing the global climate crisis. Ensuring that carbon markets respect, protect, and promote the rights, interests, and self-determined priorities of these communities is vital. As it is only by putting communities’ interests at their heart that the carbon markets can achieve integrity and fulfil their potential long-term positive impacts for people and planet.
In recognition of this, the Integrity Council has led a two-year global initiative to co-develop a meaningful framework for engagement through consultations, workshops, and dialogue with leaders from organisations representing Indigenous Peoples as well as local communities
Announced at COP28, the self-led Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Engagement Forum is the central outcome of this process. The Forum, which convened for the first time in July 2024, is led by Indigenous Co-Chairs Onel Masardule and Diel Mochire Mwenge, with support from the Integrity Council Secretariat.
This session will provide a preview of the Forum’s strategic direction ahead of its formal launch later this year and offers an opportunity for discussion with civil society, NGOs, Indigenous Peoples organisations, and policy stakeholders.
Speakers
Diel Mochire Mwenge – Co-Chair, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Engagement Forum
Stella Napanu – Indigenous Peoples Outreach and Policy Senior Manager
This event is a unique opportunity to explore how the Forum seeks to shape a high-integrity voluntary carbon market ensuring the rights, priorities, and voices of the communities it seeks to serve are embedded in its future.
With such a diverse audience in attendance, we believe that perspectives, grounded in lived experience and practice, are essential to shaping a strategy that is inclusive, relevant, and impactful.
Your engagement at the event will help ensure that the Forum’s direction reflects the realities and priorities of Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
Please note the event will be translated in English and French.
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