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responses to the economic impacts of the pandemic. The relaxation of environmental
and human rights standards in order to support activities that will promote economic
growth, such as logging, mining, large-scale agriculture and various infrastructure
and energy projects, threaten indigenous peoples’ territories. The Permanent Forum
requests Member States to include indigenous peoples in the preparatory process and
the outcome of the high-level dialogue on energy to be held by the General Assembly
in September 2021, in order to accelerate action on achieving Goal 7 and the
implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement.
102. The Permanent Forum welcomes the fact that the International Union for
Conservation of Nature, in cooperation with indigenous peoples, is undertaking
preparations for the World Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nature to be convened
during the upcoming World Conservation Congress, which will be held in Marseille,
France, in September 2021. The summit is aimed at providing an opportunity to highlight
and exchange information about the contributions of indigenous peoples to sustaining
biodiversity, combating climate change and promoting sustainable development. The
Forum recommends that Member States, international organizations and NGOs
support the participation of indigenous peoples in the summit. The Forum invites the
International Union for Conservation of Nature to share the outcomes of the summit
at the Forum’s twenty-first session in 2022.
103. The Permanent Forum appoints Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim and Vital Bambanze,
members of the Forum, to conduct a study on indigenous peoples and res ource
conflicts in the Sahel and in the Congo Basin, and to present that study to the Forum
at its twenty-first session.
104. The Permanent Forum appoints Irma Pineda Santiago and Símon Freddy Condo
Riveros, members of the Forum, to conduct a study on collective intellectual property
and the appropriation of the ideas and creations of indigenous peoples, and to present
that study to the Forum at its twenty-first session.
105. The Permanent Forum appoints Sven-Erik Soosaar, Irma Pineda Santiago and
Bornface Museke Mate, members of the Forum, to conduct a study on indigenous
languages in the formal education system and to present that study to the Forum at its
twenty-first session.
106. The Permanent Forum appoints Darío José Mejía Montalvo, a member of the
Forum, to conduct a study on the rights of indigenous peoples facing the global energy
mix and to present that study to the Forum at its twenty -first session.
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