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Just alternatives for climate finance – Joint Event with Forest Peoples Programme

June 23 @ 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Forest Peoples Programme & RAI Joint Event

Monday 23rd June 2025, 3.30 – 5.30pm BST

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Just alternatives for climate finance

Exploring rights-based and non-market mechanisms,
including direct funding of Indigenous peoples as well as local communities

Languages – Spanish and English

Public discussions of climate finance in the UK continue to be dominated by promotion of carbon markets. This remains the case despite their well-documented failure to perform to date, and the growing evidence of the risks they pose to human rights. At the same time, alternative ways of generating climate finance – such as removing subsidies for harmful activities, increasing tax revenues, addressing inequality, domestically and globally – are underutilised even though many studies suggest that they can be more effective – and more cost effective – than “market” mechanisms.  In addition to these broader economic levers, direct funding to indigenous peoples and to local communities is emerging as a credible and cost-effective approach to addressing the climate and nature crises, while also addressing human rights and social justice. Yet it remains the case that only a tiny percentage of climate funding goes to indigenous peoples and to local communities.

This event aims to explore more just and effective forms of climate finance, including through looking at alternative sources of finance in developed economies and ways that such funds can best be directed to Indigenous peoples and local communities. At this time of seismic shifts in the global governance and economic architecture, this is a timely conversation that seeks to delve into various options, and propose a different, more just and more effective blueprint for climate finance, in the UK and beyond.

Speakers

Pamuk Teofilo Kukush Pati, the Pamuk or elected president of the Autonomous Territorial Government of the Wampís Nation

Tsanim Evaristo Wajai Asamat, the Director of Justice of the Autonomous Territorial Government of the Wampís Nation

Emil Sirén Gualinga, from the Kichwa People of Sarayaku, Ecuador, FPP research consultant and Climate Finance Advisor, Quipa

 

Forest Peoples Programme speaker, to be confirmed

Additional speaker, to be confirmed

              

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