News of Note 5/2/25: Unfulfilled Promises Five Years after Juukan Gorge, Tropical Forest Fund to Lunch, Indigenous Representation in High Seas Treaty
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Rio Tinto has not fulfilled core pledge five years on from Juukan, Aboriginal group says (Reuters)
“Inquiries in the aftermath of the Juukan Gorge destruction revealed that past agreements between miners and many Aboriginal groups had prevented the groups from speaking publicly about damage to their heritage and underpaid them royalties for mining on their lands.”
Indigenous forest peoples can finally control nature finance Context (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
”The TFFF aims to mobilize and invest $125 billion from public, private and philanthropic sources, and from its returns, reward forest countries for keeping forests standing. Crucially, it commits at least 20% of these reward payments to Indigenous peoples and local communities.”
Related: Non-profits, indigenous peoples’ groups raise concerns over proposed Tropical Forest Finance Facility expected to be launched at Belem (Down to Earth)
‘We belong to one ocean’: Indigenous leaders push for seat at the table of high seas biodiversity treaty (Mongabay)
“Representatives of Indigenous and coastal communities gathered to push for their integration into all aspects of the Agreement on Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ), sometimes known as the ‘High Seas Treaty’.”
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