IPLC Territories
The Challenge: Industrial Expansion - A Driver of Violence Facing Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
As Indigenous and other land defenders face a continual onslaught of fossil fuel, mining, and other industrial and unregulated expansion into their territories and customary lands, rights violations and violence often follows and hundreds of distinct cultures and millions of people who have been stewarding the land for milenia are at risk.
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Our Work: Capacity Building and Direct Funding to Indigenous and Grassroots Partners
Earth Insight is dedicated to sustaining our direct funding and capacity building commitment to provide at least 20% of revenue to Indigenous and local community partners working to safeguard regions threatened by oil and gas and industrial expansion in the Amazon, Congo, and Southeast Asia.
- Global: Earth Insight resource sharing supported Global Energy Monitor's Global Oil and Gas Energy Tracker (GOGET - used by thousands around the globe) and the Fossil Fuel Atlas' support of the Protect the Deltas campaign in Central/Southern Africa.
- Amazon Basin: Building momentum for expansion of protected areas and indigenous rights and territories and restricting oil and gas expansion in the Amazon: threat mapping, supporting indigenous-led coalitions, finance sector campaigning.
- Congo Basin: Restricting oil and gas expansion in the DRC and logging, mining, agro-industry expansion in primary forests in DRC and broader basin: threat mapping, advocacy, capacity building.
- Indonesia: Restricting deforestation and forest degradation from energy transition mining, bioenergy, and fossil fuel expansion in Indonesia: threat mapping, advocacy efforts, capacity building
Apu Jorge Perez, president of AIDESEP, at Climate Week in New York, September 23, 2024.
Future Direction: Prioritizing Collaborations and Direct Funding
Earth Insight is committed to allocate direct funding and resourcing to our Indigenous and local partners working in the Amazon and Congo Basins and Southeast Asia to support key activities such as field investigations, forest and territorial monitoring, strategic communications, organizing, regional and international travel and strategic litigation.