Manu Caddie is a policy advisor for Aotearoa Indigenous Rights Trust and submitted this piece for publication to celebrate release of a government document that was politically too hot for the Coalition Government. After months of trying, bring denied initially, challenging the official decision and going through the Office of the Ombudsman to request a … Continue reading Developed, Dropped, Disclosed: The Discussion Document That Never Saw Daylight, Until Now
8.00AM (NZT) FRIDAY 24 APRIL - register here via MS Teams Pemadashdakota (Rice Lake) is the first body of water in Ontario to receive this status, and the second in Canada after Quebec's Magpie River set the precedent as it was granted legal personhood in 2021. We're honoured to host Chief Taynar Simpson of Alderville … Continue reading Webinar: The Lake That’s A Legal Person
The Secretariat of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is currently holding a global consultation on the draft Programme of Work on Forest Biodiversity (PoW Forests), a key component of implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. This consultation seeks input on how the new global strategy for forests can halt biodiversity loss while addressing … Continue reading Protecting Forests with Indigenous Knowledge: What AIR Trust Recommends
The WGDSI-1 report below summarises where we are up to in the DSI discussions. The annex of the document contains each of the points that are to be discussed in the IAG. Hopefully this doc gives readers a good idea of where things are at and have developed since COP15 Decision 15/9 (December 2022). KatieLee … Continue reading DSI Working Group Report
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