Developing the CEESP COMPONENT PROGRAMME

for 2013-2016

CEESP Executive Committee Meeting

New Delhi, India,

9-11 November 2011

CEESP is

The

International Union for the Conservation of Nature

(IUCN)

Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy

(CEESP)

With a Mandate

Adopted by the IUCN Membership at the

World Conservation Congress

1. CEESP Vision

A world where equity is at the root of a dynamic harmony between people and nature, as well as among peoples. A world of diversity, productivity and integrity of natural systems. A world in which production and consumption patterns are sustainable. A world where cultural diversity is intertwined with biological diversity and both generate abundant and sustainable livelihoods opportunities.

2. CEESP Mission

To contribute to the IUCN Mission by providing insights and expertise and promoting policies and action to harmonize the conservation of nature with the crucial socioeconomic and cultural concerns of human communities—such as livelihoods, human rights and responsibilities, human development, security, equity, and the fair and effective governance of natural resources.

The IUCN Programme

IUCN Programme 2013-2016Where can CEESP add value?

• Provide technical advice and expertise in natural and social sciences: – Governance, Rights and Equity– Indigenous peoples– Poverty, sustainable livelihoods and human security– Local communities and climate change (REDD and adaptation)– Macroeconomic analysis and policy– Bio-cultural diversity – Extractive industry impacts and policy

• Enhance knowledge, tools and standards of practice• Build consensus and partnerships for action with indigenous peoples and

local communities• Enhance capacity of indigenous peoples and local communities to engage

effectively in natural resource governance and decision-making processes• Promote policy reform on natural resource governance• Contribute to dialogue on sustainability futures and bringing to life a ‘new

conservation ethic’ for people and nature

Whakatane Steering Committee “Map”

Whakatane Major Issues

• Climate change – rights, adaptation, migration, carbon credits, land grabbing, trade

• Macro-economics• Agricultural policy• Influencing IUCN policy• Commodification of nature –

impact on people• Implementation of declarations

– human rights and water• Social mvmts – food, land use –

work with pastoralists, fisherfolk, campesinos, etc.

• Support ecosystem services• How to do it differently – share

power, meet people’s need• Alternative vision for planet• Right to self determination• Rio +20• IUCN response to indigenous

people cries for help• Extractive industries and

sustainable development• Protect water & marine

resources• IUCN speak out in defense of

Indigenous peoples

Key Messages

• Conservation is a western concept – not relevant to all peoples.

• Sharing power means the right to share responsibility for lands and resources.

• Conservation gains are not dependent on state involvement.

• Wisdom comes from contact with nature - need full application of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) - not just consultation.

• Governments need to more actively impose and enforce rules on extractive industries' activities.

• Biofuel development should not take food producing agricultural land.

• We need to reshape and rethink economics - there is a diversity of forms of economic organization.

• Build intercultural dialogue on processes that give marginalised actors more voice and communicate in multiple ways for different audiences.

• Lands, territories and natural resources are an extension of the people, and must be cared for for the good of the collective people because it is a responsibility and not because a profit can be derived from it.

The time has come for a “new conservation ethic”, one that is accountable, celebrates cultural diversity, cares for species and ecosystems and supports civil society movements, indigenous peoples and local communities to bring a more socially and environmentally just world into being.

The new conservation ethic responds to the specificities and histories of local places by responding to the visions and ideas of local communities and indigenous peoples specific context and relies on local knowledge and decisions.

Needed:CEESP’s Contribution