Indigenous Peoples and Climate Justice: A Critical Analysis of International Human Rights Law and Governance

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations
List of Tables
1: Introduction
	Setting Up the Scene: An International Perspective
	Book Methodology
	Community Research Methodology
	Outline of the Book
	References
2: Climate Justice as an Interpretative Approach
	Introduction
	The Notion of Climate Justice
		Indigenous Climate Justice
		Distribution, Recognition and Participation as a Justice Discourse
		Capabilities Approach, Human Rights and Justice
		Decolonial Theories
		Recognition of Customary Law and Indigenous Knowledge: Same Old (Neo-)Colonial Story?
	Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change and Colonialism
		Rethinking Vulnerability
		Contextualizing Climate Change and Colonialism: The Yanesha Peoples of the Palcazu Valley in Peru
	Conclusion
	References
3: The International Legal Framework: Human Rights and Climate Change
	Introduction
	Human Rights-Based Approaches to Climate Change
		The Paradox and the Inclusive Promise of Human Rights-Based Approaches to Climate Change
		Human Rights, Climate Change and International Law
		Substantive Rights, Procedural and Participatory Rights and Related Challenges
	Environmental Rights and Climate Change
		Indivisibility of Human Rights and the Environment: The Right to a Healthy Environment
		Climate Change and the Right to Life, Food, Health, Water and Other Fundamental Rights: An Issue of Justice
		Right to Life
		Right to Food
		Right to Health
		Right to Water
		Other Human Rights at Stake
	Conclusion
	References
4: Indigenous Peoples in International Law and Governance
	Introduction
	The International Protection of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights
		Political Doctrines of Colonization and Decolonization Adopted Within International Law
		Individual and Collective Rights
		Indigenous Peoples and International Human Rights Law
		Human Rights Dimensions of Environmental Law
		Jurisprudence of International Courts
	The Participation of Indigenous Peoples in International Fora
		Participation from Local to Global
		The UN System: The Establishment of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
		From Exclusion in Climate Governance to the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change
	Conclusion
	References
5: Participatory Rights, Conservation and Indigenous Customary Law
	Introduction
		Right to Consultation and to FPIC
			Differences Between Consultation and Consent: Two Different Standards in International Law?
			Consent, Traditional Knowledge and Benefit-Sharing
			Indigenous Critiques and Guidelines to the Operationalization of FPIC
			Climate Finance, Participation and Redress: The Independent Redress Mechanism of the Green Climate Fund and the Peruvian Project
			The Enforcement of Consent Procedures in National Legislation: Example from Peru
		Biodiversity Conservation, Emissions Reductions and Indigenous Customary Law
			REDD+, Conservation and Commodification of Forests
		Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas
		The Status of Indigenous Customary Law
	Conclusion
	References
6: Climate Change and Litigation: Human Rights as a Tool for Climate Justice
	Introduction
		Climate Litigation and Indigenous Peoples
			Conceptualizing and Quantifying Climate Litigation
			Types of Liability and the Potential for a Human Rights-Based Approach in Climate Litigation
			Indigenous Peoples in Climate Litigation
	Conclusion
	References
7: Beyond the Human Rights-Based Approach: Rights of Nature and Ecological Integrity
	Introduction
	Earth Jurisprudence as a Systemic and Epistemic Alternative in the Climate Change Context
	Not Only Human Rights: Indigenous Cosmovision and Rights of Nature
	Critical Aspects of Rights of Nature vis-a-vis Indigenous Anthropomorphism
	Rights of Nature in Law and Governance
	Rights of Nature in Global Environmental Litigation
	The Right of Ecological Integrity: A Way Forward Through a Non-centredness Theory
	Conclusion
	References
8: Conclusion
	Achieving Climate Justice Within a World of Coloniality
	Ways Forward and Future Avenues for Research
Appendix
	Pictures from Yanesha Communities, November 2018
Index