A/HRC/36/46 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples Contents Page I. Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 3 II. Activities of the Special Rapporteur ............................................................................................. 3 III. Indigenous peoples and climate change ........................................................................................ 3 A. Impact of climate change on indigenous peoples ................................................................. 3 B. Indigenous peoples’ contributions to adaptation and mitigation strategies .......................... 5 IV. Human rights bodies, indigenous peoples and climate change ..................................................... 6 V. Human rights and other international standards, including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement ............................................................ 7 A. Self-determination and the right to development .................................................................. 8 B. Land rights, the right to participation and free, prior and informed consent ........................ 9 C. Rights to health, water and food and an adequate standard of living .................................... 10 D. Culture and traditional knowledge ........................................................................................ 10 E. International cooperation ...................................................................................................... 11 F. Right to redress and reparation ............................................................................................. 12 G. Sustainable Development Goals ........................................................................................... 13 VI. State commitments, national reports and intended nationally determined contributions .............. 14 VII. Climate finance and safeguards ..................................................................................................... 15 A Global Environment Facility ................................................................................................ 16 B. Clean Development Mechanism ........................................................................................... 16 C. United Nations Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD-plus) ......................................................................................... 17 D. Adaptation Fund ................................................................................................................... 17 E. Green Climate Fund .............................................................................................................. 18 Examples of mitigation projects of concern .................................................................................. 18 A. Barro Blanco hydroelectric project in Panama ..................................................................... 19 B. Water Tower Protection and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Programme in Kenya.......................................................................................... 19 C. Agua Zarca hydroelectric project in Honduras ..................................................................... 19 D. Other related situations ......................................................................................................... 20 Conclusions and recommendations ............................................................................................... 20 A. Conclusions .......................................................................................................................... 20 B. Recommendations................................................................................................................. 21 VIII. IX. 2