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✨ Save the Date! Youth are taking the mic at #COP30 🎤 Join us for the RRI Youth Side Event in Belém! 🗓️ Nov 15 | ⏰ 2–3 PM (BRT) 📍 COP Village / ALDEA COP, UFPA 🌱 Launching the Global Youth Roadmap + Climate Justice Statement + Network #YouthForClimate #LandRights #RRI #COP30

At #COP30, Earth’s #DefendersLeadTheWay! Explore RRI’s new COP30 hub: 🌎 Priorities 🗞 News 🎟 Events 📚 Library 🌱 Youth 👉 rightsandresources.org/cop30 #RightsBasedClimateAction #COP30Brazil

🙌 Big win for the Indigenous Haida People off the coast of BC in #Canada this morning! The Big Tide Haida Title Lands Agreement affirms that the Haida will now have legal title over the lands + waters of the archipelago of Haida Gwaii #LandRightsNow timescolonist.com/local-news…

📣Last week, the government of #DRC announced the creation of Earth’s largest protected #tropical forest reserve! But with nearly 31 million local people living in the area, the initiative must not leave #Indigenous Peoples and local communities behind. 🌱Read the announcement: ow.ly/rPI150UQtNy 🌱Read civil society’s declaration and response: ow.ly/elTN50UQtNz #LandRightsNow #CongoBasin #30x30

What happens when #CleanEnergy initiatives are done without the consent of Indigenous communities? That's explored in the latest report on #Sámi rights and #climatejustice launched today by: @Amnesty_Norge @amnestyfinland @AmnestySverige @SaamiCouncil amnesty.fi/uploads/2025/01/f…

In the fight for #climatejustice, learn how connections between the #environment and human communities can create positive and lasting change, especially for Pacific Island Indigenous Peoples: ow.ly/cOPe50UOBmb

Dr. Doris Capistrano, a longtime RRI Fellow, boasts an impressive career working in #forestry and #climatechange both in the professional and educational space. To learn more about Dr. Capistrano and other RRI Fellows, check out our coalition guide: ow.ly/yIqG50UMCch

Discover Big Ideas In Brief, a series of think pieces + commentary by industry-leading #activists and academics from RRI who are scaling up efforts to protect #humanrights, achieve #genderjustice, and dramatically improve the self-determined livelihoods of the world’s #Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant Peoples, and local communities. rightsandresources.org/big-i…

2024 was a year of challenges and setbacks, but it was also a year of successes and positive change. We're grateful for our friends at Synchronicity Earth who compiled some of these big wins! Check it out 👇🏽 synchronicityearth.org/six-s…

Don Roberts, an RRI fellow, has over 30 years of experience as a financial services executive, investment banker, and equity professional, and over 35 years of experience in the resource sector. He’s worked as an adjunct professor in forest management at the University of British Columbia, a visiting scholar of clean energy at Peking University, a mentor through the Pierre Trudeau Foundation, and sits on several profit and non-profit boards of directors/advisors. Additionally, in 2013, as the vice-chair of Wholesale Banking and the managing director in investment banking at CIBC World Markets Inc., he founded and led the bank’s cross-functional renewable energy and clean technology team. Learn more about our coalition members here: rightsandresources.org/who-w…