Territorial organizations representing indigenous peoples and local communities are of vital importance to the success of COP 26. This is agreed by the leaders of the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities (AGCT), Tuntiak Katan and Levi Sucre, and the British Ambassador-designate for Costa Rica and Nicaragua, Ben Lyster-Binns.
Representatives of the AGCT held a meeting with the Ambassador in San José, Costa Rica, on May 18. At the meeting, they presented the AGCT as the representative organization of indigenous and local communities that manage 800 million hectares of forest. As Guardians of the Forest, the organizations that make up the AGCT seek to have active participation in the COP 26, to be held in Glasgow, United Kingdom, in November 2021.
Ambassador Lyster-Binns welcomed the space for dialogue, and highlighted that the opening of an egalitarian space is one of the priorities of the COP Presidency in London. The President of COP 26, Alok Sharma, has called for "an inclusive summit, where all voices are heard, including the voices of developing countries, women, youth and indigenous peoples". Along these lines, the Ambassador to Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
In this sense, the Ambassador called for joint work with the Mesoamerican Alliance of Peoples and Forests in the region, and with the AGCT at the global level.
La relación de las organizaciones indígenas de la Red Indígena Bribri Cabécar (RIBCA), miembro de AMPB, ha abierto un canal de conversaciones con la misión británica en Costa Rica. En marzo, la joven Azalia Calderón, de la Red de Jóvenes RIBCA, participó en un encuentro con Alok Sharma, en el cual expuso la relevancia de la juventud indígena en la acción climática.
On May 5, 2021, Heylin Sanchez, from the Association of Indigenous Women of Talamanca Cabécar, Kábata Könana, spoke with Anne-Marie Trevelyan, Minister of State for Business, Energy and Clean Growth, and UK International Champion for Adaptation and Resilience for the COP26 Presidency, about the actions that women are leading in their territory for resilience and food security.
