{"id":401252,"date":"2025-12-16T16:45:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/?p=401252"},"modified":"2025-12-18T08:49:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T07:49:57","slug":"from-pledges-to-locally-led-climate-action-gender-just-indigenous-solutions-for-forests-and-climate-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/en\/news\/from-pledges-to-locally-led-climate-action-gender-just-indigenous-solutions-for-forests-and-climate-action\/","title":{"rendered":"From pledges to locally-led climate action: gender-just Indigenous solutions for forests and climate action\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Locally-led, gender-just approaches are the most effective path to halt deforestation and advance real climate action, yet Indigenous peoples and local communities, especially women, are often overlooked in decision-making that concerns their land and natural environment. At the Climate Change COP30 in Belem last month, framed as the Forest COP, the Green Livelihoods Alliance (GLA) and the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA) organised <\/strong>a side event<\/strong><\/a> on the topic.<\/strong> <\/h4>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Header photo: (c) GAGGA \/ GLA<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The panel featured high-level representatives from Ireland & the Netherlands, government voices from Suriname and Indigenous & civil society leaders from Central America, Philippines, Thailand & DRC.\u202fThe event showcased gender-just, Indigenous and locally-led solutions that protect forests and advance climate justice with calls for direct, equitable finance and stronger political commitment to extend and implement the Glasgow Forest Pledge<\/a> and Locally-Led Adaptation (LLA) Principles<\/a> beyond 2025. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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\u2018We are not just recipients of these pledges,\u2019 said Norlita Colili, Pala\u2019wan Indigenous woman environmental and human rights defender and landscape coordinator at GLA partner NTFP-EP Philippines<\/a>, who spoke at the event. \u2018We should be involved in designing, creating, and implementing projects out of those pledges. We are not to be considered participants or beneficiaries of project proposals only, but partners in forest governance, in climate actions, and engaged in decision making. We want to be recognised as key players in coming up with solutions to the forest and climate crisis we are facing, not an obstacle or burden.\u2019 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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\u2018If we want to understand how locally-led adaptation works in practice, we can look to feminist community-based organisations,\u2019 said Camila Bartelega, Brazilian economist with the Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense<\/a> (AIDA)\u2019s Climate Programme. \u2018They are addressing the climate crisis and advancing solutions grounded in their local knowledge, from sustainable agriculture to forest restoration, from food forests to water management. So, trusting feminist grassroots and Indigenous movements is not optional. It’s the best way we have to respond to the multiple crises we are facing today.\u2019 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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