Indigenous lands and REDD in the Amazon: lessons from the Xingu project for national REDD.

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Indigenous lands and REDD in the Amazon lessons
from the Xingu project for national REDD.
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Xingu basin protected areas corridor - 26
million ha
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Indigenous lands and the protected areas
network Source Woods Hole Research Center
- Indigenous lands
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On September 29, 2007, the Moderate Resolution
Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua
satellite captured this image of the southern
Amazon, showing widespread fires (locations
marked in red) in the state of Mato Grosso,
Brazil. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid
Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center.
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Xingu Indigenous Lands Kayapo, Xingu Indigenous
Park, Panara 14 million hectares 18 peoples
(population 9,000) 15 languages
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• Xingu Protected Areas Corridor
• Territorial Monitoring and Control
• Economic Alternatives
• Capacity building
• Strengthening local organizations

Xingu Indigenous Park (PIX) Kayapo territories
Panara (Anfrisio, Iriri and Middle Xingu
Extractive Reserves)
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Associacao Terra Indigena do Xingu
(ATIX) Associacao Floresta Protegida Instituto
Raoni Kabu Associacao Indigena Iakio Panara
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• National REDD for Indigenous Lands
• Objective criteria for allocation of benefits
  (carbon stocks)
• Strengthen national organizations, but involve
  regional (sub-national) confederations networks
• Let indigenous peoples choose their own partners
  
• Development benefits (schools, sanitation,
  capacity building, economic alternatives,
  territorial control) vs. cash payments define
  with regional organizations
• Incentives for transparency, accountability,
  compliance

• Amazon Indigenous Peoples and REDD Policy
• National International Indigenous
  Organizations (COIAB, COICA)
• Amazon Fund
• National Climate Change Plan
• UNFCCC

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Indigenous Peoples Amazonia 170 Peoples
160 languages 389 Indigenous Lands (Terras
Indigenas) 1 million km2 300,000 people
(1.5 of Amazon population) How to
negotiate allocation of REDD benefits?
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• REDD Design Options
• Avoided deforestation projects (below BAU)
• Multistakeholder reduced deforestation program
• Stock Flow

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Avoided deforestation or displaced deforestation?
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Stock-flow approach offers objective basis for
allocating credit carbon stocks threat.
Saatchi et al., 2007. Global Change Biology 13,
816 - 837
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The resilience of cultural difference