With the aim of restarting the land demarcation process, the leaders of the Brazilian Indigenous Peoples Articulation (APIB) will attend the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27).
The event will take place in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, and the delegation will guide the demarcation of Indigenous Lands in the country as an important action in facing the global crisis.
The conference will be the arrival of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on the international stage. The elected president accepted invitations from Legal Amazon and Egyptian presidential governors to attend the event.
As UOL explains, the summit of the event expects Lula to initiate the process of reviewing Brazil’s environmental commitments, and his presence in Egypt promises to eclipse the country’s official delegation still under Bolsonaro.
For indigenous groups, however, the meeting will be an opportunity to re-launch the debate over land limitation, which had been frozen in the years of Jair Bolsonaro and fueled conflicts and deaths.
APIB emphasizes that these lands are the areas with the greatest biodiversity and the best preserved vegetation. An example of this is the result of the data migration performed by APIB in 2022 in partnership with the Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental do Amazonas (Ipam) with data from MapBiomas. “He points out that 29% of the land around indigenous lands in Brazil is deforested, while deforestation is only 2% on these lands,” he says.
APIB’s executive coordinator, Dinamam Tuxá, reminds us that one of the campaign promises of current president Jair Bolsonaro in 2018 is not to limit any ancestral territory. “The measure is an attack on the rights of indigenous peoples guaranteed in the 1988 Federal Constitution, and promotes deforestation and illegal mining,” the party says.
“There is no solution to the climate crisis in Brazil without the containment of land and therefore the protection of indigenous peoples. We have a close relationship with Mother Nature and are seeing the effects of the environmental destruction caused by Bolsonaro up close, and now she hopes to work with Lula to change the situation,” he explains. Tuxa.
Indigenous people are still betting on the return of international resources. Less than 24 hours after the election,
Norway has announced that it will continue the Amazon Fund, an international cooperation program that provides financial assistance to Brazil to reduce deforestation. The fund was created during the Lula government, but in 2019 Bolsonaro introduced new requirements that caused Norway and Germany to end their resource transfers reaching US$1 billion.
“We have a more optimistic scenario with Lula, but the struggle does not stop. We will continue to fight for the demarcation of Indigenous land and the destruction of the Temporal Framework thesis. Like Norway, it is also important that more countries participate. Return to discussion and dialogue with Brazil to solve the climate crisis together”, Apib’ underlined Eunice Kerexu, executive coordinator of
source: Noticias
