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Global Governance of the Environment, Indigenous Peoples and the Rights of Nature - Extractive Industries in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Paperback, 1st ed. 2022)
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Global Governance of the Environment, Indigenous Peoples and the Rights of Nature - Extractive Industries in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Paperback, 1st ed. 2022)
Series: Governance, Development, and Social Inclusion in Latin America
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This book explores the obstacles facing indigenous communities,
non-governmental organizations, governments, and international
institutions in their attempts to protect the cultures of
indigenous peoples and the world's remaining rainforests.
Indigenous peoples are essential as guardians of the world's wild
places for the maintenance of ecosystems and the prevention of
climate change. The Amazonian/Andean indigenous philosophies of
sumac kawsay/suma qamana (buen vivir) were the inspiration for the
incorporation of the Rights of Nature into the Ecuadorian and
Bolivian constitutions of 2008 and 2009. Yet despite the creation
of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (2000),
and the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples (2007), indigenous peoples have been
marginalized from intergovernmental environmental negotiations.
Indigenous environment protectors' lives are in danger while the
Amazon rainforests continue to burn. By the third decade of the
21st century, the dawn of "woke" capitalism was accompanied by the
expansion of ethical investment, with BlackRock leading the field
in the "greening" of investment management, while Big Oil sought a
career change in sustainable energy production. The final chapters
explain the confluence of forces that has resulted in the continued
expansion of the extractive frontier into indigenous territory in
the Amazon, including areas occupied by peoples living in voluntary
isolation. Among these forces are legal and extracurricular
payments made to individuals, within indigenous communities and in
state entities, and the use of tax havens to deposit unofficial
payments made to secure public contracts. Solutions to loss of
biodiversity and climate change may be found as much in the
transformation of global financial and tax systems in terms of
transparency and accountability, as in efforts by states,
intergovernmental institutions and private foundations to protect
wild areas through the designation of national parks, through
climate finance, and other "sustainable" investment strategies.
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