{"id":1018,"date":"2012-03-29T14:57:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T14:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/2012\/03\/29\/african-indigenous-peoples-and-the-unep-green-economy-initiative\/"},"modified":"2012-03-29T14:57:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T14:57:55","slug":"african-indigenous-peoples-and-the-unep-green-economy-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/african-indigenous-peoples-and-the-unep-green-economy-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"African Indigenous Peoples and the  UNEP Green Economy Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">The  UN Environment Program (UNEP) has released a report on the Green  Economy Initiative (GEI), which is a major theme for the upcoming UN  Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) marking the 20th  anniversary of the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992.  The GEI represents a central element in international policy about  responding to the crisis of global climate instability, the rapid  decline in biodiversity and the serious threats these pose to peace and  well-being on the planet. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">The  GEI offers some important ideas about moving to a low carbon economy,  but is based on some questionable premises,including its exclusion of  the role of civil society and the rights of Indigenous Peoples to  conserve and sustain the biodiversity in their traditional territories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">From  August 15-16, 2011, IPACC and Natural Justice facilitated a workshop of  African indigenous leaders from nine African countries to study the  content of the Green Economy Initiative, develop a critical  understanding of its recommendations, assumptions and purpose,  articulate a response, and issue a formal statement and a response  document to be submitted to UNEP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">To read the full report, click <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stakeholderforum.org\/fileadmin\/files\/UNEP_GEI.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Environment Program (UNEP) has released a report on the Green Economy Initiative (GEI), which is a major theme for the upcoming UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) marking the 20th anniversary of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mg-pubs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}