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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the protection of indigenous peoples plays a vital role in the fight against climate change. When it comes to the environment, poverty and health, they are the first to suffer from climate change.
Above and beyond deforestation and the mining industry, they suffer from the false solutions proposed by industrialised countries. Biofuels are not a clean alternative. They damage the land of indigenous peoples, with the result that they have to relocate.
Similarly, when we promote clean technologies, the multinationals appropriate ancestral technologies so as to resell them at a high price to the same populations that invented them. I regret the fact that no reference has been made to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the resolution submitted today.
We should have also referred to biopiracy and the autonomous property right of indigenous peoples as being fundamental tools for combating climate change. I will bring up these issues when we discuss future resolutions. The forest issue is not just about carbon, but about people’s lives.
Lastly, to conclude, I should like to thank Mrs Dati for her determination, and if I have understood her correctly …"@en1
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