Press Conference Ahead of United Nations Convention on Biodiversity
Uplifts Global Indigenous Voices Exposing Harmful “Natuure-Based Dispossessions”
“Nature-based solutions is dangerous for Indigenous Peoples.” “Under the umbrella of net-zero emissions targets the private sector corporations, the UN and governments are using it to push for more land-based offsets for a global carbon pricing system. “Nature-based solutions” has Big Ag, Big Oil and Big Pharma behind it. We are seeing a huge push for policies that falsely claim to save Mother Earth – the planet. The reality will be more land grabbing from Indigenous Peoples’ lands and territories.”
Tom BK Goldtooth,
Indigenous Environmental Network
UNFCCC COP26 Negotiations End with False Solutions Insufficient to Mitigate Warming to 1.4C
It Takes Roots Statement on Conclusion of the UNFCCC COP26 Conference of the Parties: Incrementalism Means More Climate Disaster for Frontline Communities
Failure on fossil fuels in latest outcome text risks failure of COP26
“The Indigenous Resistance Against Carbon report uplifts the work of countless Tribal Nations, Indigenous water protectors, land defenders, pipeline fighters, & many others who have dedicated their lives to defending their inherent right of Indigenous sovereignty.”
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Carbon Pricing is a False Solution
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Fossil fuel pollution and climate disasters are already disrupting millions of lives. We deserve a world beyond fossil fuels: a world in which workers’ rights, community health, and our shared climate come before corporate profits.
That’s why frontline black, brown and indigenous leaders are calling us to action at the White House this October to demand President Biden pick a side: People vs fossil fuels.
We’re holding a huge kick-off call to share more about the action.
Can you join the call on Thursday, September 9, to learn more about People vs Fossil Fuels?
Authored by grassroots, veteran organizers, movement strategists and thought leaders from across our climate and environmental justice movements, the third edition of Hoodwinked in the Hothouse is an easy-to-read, concise-yet-comprehensive compendium of the false corporate promises that continue to hoodwink elected officials and the public, leading us down risky pathways poised to waste billions of public dollars on a host of corporate snake-oil schemes and market-based mechanisms. These false solutions distract from the real solutions that serve our most urgent needs in an alarming climate justice moment of no-turning-back. By uncovering the pitfalls and risky investments being advanced by disaster capitalists to serve the needs of the biggest polluters on the planet, Hoodwinked also provides a robust framework for understanding the depth of real solutions and how they should be determined. As a pop-ed toolbox, Hoodwinked promises to be instructive for activists, impacted communities and organizers, while providing elected officials with critical lenses to examine a complex, technocratic field of climate change policy strategies, from local to national and international arenas.
Carbon pricing schemes put a price on the air we breathe, violating Mother Earth and Father Sky.
COVID-19 Relief
Due to an overwhelming response, we are only able to fund a portion of the applications we receive. We are currently raising funds and can only distribute what we receive, and will continue to do so as resources become available. We will prioritize groups and organizations who are offering mutual aid as part of community organized efforts. Thank you!
This rapid response support will be extended to community-based Indigenous peoples and organizations from the U.S. and Canada. (Central and South America on a case-by-case basis.)
Our Mission
In 1991, near the sacred Bear Butte in South Dakota, near 500 Native people came together at the outdoor 2nd Annual IEN Protecting Mother Earth gathering. At this gathering, this Unifying Principle and the Environmental Code of Ethics were written.
IEN is an alliance of Indigenous Peoples whose Shared Mission is to Protect the Sacredness of Earth Mother from contamination & exploitation by Respecting and Adhering to Indigenous Knowledge and Natural Law
Our Team
IEN is an alliance of Indigenous Peoples whose Shared Mission is to Protect the Sacredness of Earth Mother from contamination & exploitation by strengthening, maintaining and respecting Indigenous teachings and natural laws.
