The International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on Climate Change demands that
any international agreement relating to climate change shall ensure all mitigation
actions including REDD should be consistent with international instruments such
as the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Convention on
Biological Diversity, and agreements on Sustainable Development and the
Millennium Development Goals. They should also recognize the multiple values
and benefits of forests and biodiversity as well as the key role of Indigenous
Peoples’ traditional knowledge, livelihoods and customary resource management
systems in preventing deforestation and ecosystem degradation.