Climate Policies and Indigenous RightsA REPORT FROMTHE INTERNATIONAL FORUMON GLOBALIZATIONby Gretchen GordonECOMMENDATIONSWhen climate policies like agrofuels promotion threaten indigenous rights, we may have tried to address a carbonemissions problem, but weve created a human rights problem. In the current climate crisis, striving for real sustainabilitymeans looking beyond carbon calculations, and even beyond climate change. It means designing policies that considerentire social, economic, and environmental systems and how those systems interact. And it means prioritizing not justshort-term goals, but more overarching values like human rights, indigenous rights, biodiversity, environmental quality,social equity and inclusion. One of the unique things about an indigenous rights-based approach to climate change is thatit can, in many cases, be a means of promoting each of these overarching values simultaneously. Policymakers and climate advocates should push for an indigenous rights-based approach to climate change. This approach should take guidance from indigenous peoples and indigenous peoples coalitions to: 1) address the realdrivers of climate change and avoid false solutions; 2) establish formal structures and mechanisms for effectiveparticipation of indigenous peoples; and 3) integrate binding indigenous rights standards throughout climate policies andmechanisms. Policymakers and advocates should ensure that climate policies:1) provide for the resources and mechanisms necessary to ensure effective direct participation of indigenous peoples in policymaking, andto guarantee the free, prior and informed consent of indigenous peoples in the proposals that impact them; 2) consider the impacts of climate change on indigenous peoples and acknowledge the contribution of indigenous peoples to climate changemitigation and adaptation;3) explicitly reference the rights of indigenous peoples, including their collective rights, rather than merely referencing the interestsof, or impacts on, indigenous communities; 4) acknowledge indigenous rights as inalienable human rights which carry obligations enforceable under international law;5) include binding indigenous rights safeguards at or above the minimum standards established by the Declaration, including the right to free,prior and informed consent; and provide specific guidance as to the content and implementation of these rights;6) establish adequate mechanisms and provide necessary resources for effective monitoring, enforcement, and redress to ensure compliancewith indigenous rights standards.veja na integra na lista de publicacoes o clique no link do titulo desta postagem O aumento da producao de etanol nos ultimos dez anos no Brasil se deu gracas a um grande aporte de investimento em pesquisa e desenvolvimento tecnologico, mas tambem a um fortalecimento das redes de inovacao do setor sucroenergetico e da ggovernanca ambiental do setor, principalmente no estado de Sao Paulo. Desta maneira, esta pesquisa tem por objetivo analisar os arranjos e processos das redes de inovacao tecnologica formadas pelos atores atuantes na cadeia de pesquisa, desenvolvimento e difusao tecnologica que vem favorecendo a consolidacao do bioetanol no mercado. A coleta de dados se deu atraves de entrevistas semi-estruturadas e analise documental. As consideracoes finais da pesquisa apresentam, entre outros pontos, que no setor sucroenergetico ha redes abertas e fechadas que se intersectam e promovem inovacoes radicais e incrementais; que na primeira geracao do bioetanol e no cultivo da cana-de-acucar ha uma plataforma tecnologica solida que contribui para a sustentabilidade economica, social e ambiental do setor sucroenergetico; e que esta ocorrendo