Indigenous alliance unveils Brazil’s first Native

Brazil’s largest Indigenous organization has launched the country’s first Native-led strategy to cut greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on Aug. 9. The idea is for the plan to be incorporated into the Brazilian government’s own emissions reduction plan, the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), which the country updates and submits every five year as part of its obligations as a party to the 2015 Paris climate agreement. The Indigenous NDC was drawn up by the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), representing Indigenous peoples and organizations from across the country. APIB’s NDC contains 36 demands for inclusion into the Brazilian NDC and National Climate Plan, which set out targets and pathways for cutting emissions a