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Developing the CEESP
COMPONENT PROGRAMME
for 2013-2016
CEESP Executive Committee Meeting
New Delhi, India,
9-11 November 2011
CEESP is
The
International Union for the Conservation of Nature
(IUCN)
Commission on Environmental, Economic, and
Social Policy
(CEESP)
With a Mandate
Adopted by the IUCN Membership at the
World Conservation Congress
1. CEESP Vision
A world where equity is at the root of a dynamic
harmony between people and nature, as well as
among peoples. A world of diversity, productivity
and integrity of natural systems. A world in
which production and consumption patterns
are sustainable. A world where cultural diversity
is intertwined with biological diversity and both
generate abundant and sustainable livelihoods
opportunities.
2. CEESP Mission
To contribute to the IUCN Mission by providing
insights and expertise and promoting policies
and action to harmonize the conservation of
nature with the crucial socioeconomic and
cultural concerns of human communities—
such as livelihoods, human rights and
responsibilities, human development, security,
equity, and the fair and effective governance of
natural resources.
The IUCN Programme
IUCN Programme 2013-2016
Where can CEESP add value?
• Provide technical advice and expertise in natural and social sciences:
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Governance, Rights and Equity
Indigenous peoples
Poverty, sustainable livelihoods and human security
Local communities and climate change (REDD and adaptation)
Macroeconomic analysis and policy
Bio-cultural diversity
Extractive industry impacts and policy
• Enhance knowledge, tools and standards of practice
• Build consensus and partnerships for action with indigenous peoples and
local communities
• Enhance capacity of indigenous peoples and local communities to engage
effectively in natural resource governance and decision-making processes
• Promote policy reform on natural resource governance
• Contribute to dialogue on sustainability futures and bringing to life a ‘new
conservation ethic’ for people and nature
Whakatane Steering
Committee “Map”
Whakatane Major Issues
• Climate change – rights,
adaptation, migration, carbon
credits, land grabbing, trade
• Macro-economics
• Agricultural policy
• Influencing IUCN policy
• Commodification of nature –
impact on people
• Implementation of declarations –
human rights and water
• Social mvmts – food, land use –
work with pastoralists, fisherfolk,
campesinos, etc.
• Support ecosystem services
• How to do it differently – share
power, meet people’s need
• Alternative vision for planet
• Right to self determination
• Rio +20
• IUCN response to indigenous
people cries for help
• Extractive industries and
sustainable development
• Protect water & marine
resources
• IUCN speak out in defense of
Indigenous peoples
Key Messages
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Conservation is a western concept – not relevant to all peoples.
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Sharing power means the right to share responsibility for lands and
resources.
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Conservation gains are not dependent on state involvement.
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Wisdom comes from contact with nature - need full application of Free,
Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) - not just consultation.
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Governments need to more actively impose and enforce rules on
extractive industries' activities.
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Biofuel development should not take food producing agricultural land.
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We need to reshape and rethink economics - there is a diversity of forms
of economic organization.
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Build intercultural dialogue on processes that give marginalised actors
more voice and communicate in multiple ways for different audiences.
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Lands, territories and natural resources are an extension of the people,
and must be cared for for the good of the collective people because it is a
responsibility and not because a profit can be derived from it.
The time has come for a “new conservation ethic”,
one that is accountable, celebrates cultural diversity,
cares for species and ecosystems and supports civil
society movements, indigenous peoples and local
communities to bring a more socially and
environmentally just world into being.
The new conservation ethic responds to the
specificities and histories of local places by
responding to the visions and ideas of local
communities and indigenous peoples specific
context and relies on local knowledge and decisions.
Needed:
CEESP’s Contribution