Newly published chapter by Margherita Poto, Endalew Enjew and James Anaya on Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change

As a new collaborative research result in collaboration with GoSápmi, Margherita Poto, Endalew Enyew and James Anaya contributed in the book Klimarettbok Internasjonal, europeisk og norsk klimarett mot 2050 (II utgave) ed. H. C. Bugge, C. Voigt, Universitetsforlaget, 2024, ISBN-9788215068336. 

This chapter explores whether and to what extent international climate law recognizes indigenous rights in climate action on the one side and how indigenous-led solutions contribute to climate-effective solutions on the other side. In doing so, it articulates a link between international and indigenous climate governance. After a brief introduction to the relationship between climate change and indigenous peoples, the chapter offers an analysis of climate legal provisions applicable to indigenous peoples (hereinafter, CLIP), exploring the weaknesses and strengths of such narrative in relation to indigenous environmental justice (IEJ), and then scrutinizing some human rights-based climate litigation actions involving indigenous peoples. Following the red thread connecting CLIP, IEJ, and litigation scenarios, our hypothesis is that indigenous climate solutions in climate governance lead to a twofold positive result. On the one side, they provide collaborative and context-effective solutions to climate change. On the other side, they contribute to implementing indigenous rights by a leading role of indigenous knowledge in climate governance. In the conclusions, we observe how the cross-fertilization of Western climate governance and indigenous climate law and action contributes to addressing the persistent ‘exclusion dilemma’,  wherein indigenous peoples, despite their heightened vulnerability and context knowledge, continue to occupy the periphery of the climate governance discourse.

The book can be found here!

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