"Indigenous alliance unveils Brazil’s first Native-led emissions strategy", 09 August 2025

...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 and adapting to climate change impacts...

The Indigenous NDC features six themes central to the climate agenda, from mitigation and adaptation to climate change impacts, to climate finance and a just energy transition. The main demand is the demarcation and protection of Indigenous territories...

Other demands in the Indigenous NDC include measures to enforce bans on extractive activities such as mining and oil production in Indigenous territories, and to ensure direct channeling of climate finance to Indigenous organizations, funds and other mechanisms managed by Indigenous peoples...