Indigenous Peoples' Health and the Violence of False Solutions in Carbon-based Schemes

American Indian Airwaves

Indigenous peoples are approximately 5% of the world’s population, manage at least 25% of the world’s land surfaces, 40% of the world’s protected areas, and steward about 80% of the world’s biodiversity. Each year Indigenous peoples from scores of different nations and cultures across Mother Earth convene at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) in the settler colonial city, state, and nation-state New York City, New York, United States. On today’s program, we here from the panelists who participated in UNPFII side event titled “Indigenous Peoples' Health and the Violence of False Solutions” on 4/20/2023. The panel focuses on Indigenous Peoples resisting land grabs driven by extractive industries, human rights violations, and Indigenous environmental defenders resisting false solutions known as: carbon markets, cap and trade, emission trading, carbon offsets, environmental and ecological services and the rebranding of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) to earth-based solutions. The UNPFII side event was sponsored and organized by the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN). Guests: Tom Goldtooth (Dine’/Lakota Nations), Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) and moderator. Panelist speakers are (in order): Tamra Gilbertson, Policy Advisor and Education Coordinator for the IEN; Shyrlene Oliveira da Silva Huni Kui; Thomas Joseph (Hoopa Nation), Carbon Policy Educator with IEN, and Alberto Saldamando (Xicano/Zapoteca), Lawyer Advocate with IEN. Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp American Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Tunein, YouTube, and more. American Indian Airwaves is an all-volunteer collective and Native American public affairs program that broadcast weekly on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles, CA, Thursdays, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.