Brazil’s largest Indigenous organization has launched the country’s first Native-led strategy to cut greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on Aug. 9. The idea is for the plan to be incorporated into the Brazilian government’s own emissions reduction plan, the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), which the country updates and submits every five year as part of its obligations as a party to the 2015 Paris climate agreement. The Indigenous NDC was drawn up by the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), representing Indigenous peoples and organizations from across the country. APIB’s NDC contains 36 demands for inclusion into the Brazilian NDC and National Climate Plan, which set out targets and pathways for cutting emissions and adapting to climate change impacts. “This document is important because it outlines to Brazilian and international authorities the goals we hope the Brazilian government will adopt, attaching the Indigenous NDC to the Brazilian NDC before COP30 [the 2025 U.N. climate conference],” APIB executive coordinator Dinamam Tuxá told Mongabay by text message. “Furthermore, this document becomes a reference for Indigenous advocacy on the climate agenda, both for our grassroots [movements] and for Indigenous movements in other countries.” The Indigenous NDC features six themes central to the climate agenda, from mitigation and adaptation to climate change impacts, to climate finance and a just energy transition. The main demand is the demarcation and protection of Indigenous territories. According to Funai, Brazil’s federal agency for Indigenous affairs, there are 794 Indigenous lands…This article was originally published on Mongabay