ACTIONS: APGF-GLOBAL GREENS INDIGENOUS NETWORK
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09 August 2025 * Our Indigenous Network Launch
09 AUGUST 2025: Right On the International Indigenous Day!
Tankiu Tumas, our Guest Regional Speakers
Global Greens Congress 2023 was a turning point for the Indigenous Network; [2] Uncle James Williams; [3] Aunty Trish Frail; [4] Convenor Dominic WYKanak; [5] Ropata Moore; [6] Helen Rachana Shrestha; and [7] Pefi Kingi.
TBC
Marie Ann Bhiribake (Africa)
Moderator: Dominic WYKanak
Co-Leader MP Marama Dadvidsn
Domino Kai (Eruro)
FVPA
INDIGENOUS NETWORK
at the Global Greens Congress * Korea 2023
09 AUGUST 2025: Right On the International Indigenous Day!
Current Indigenous Network Steering Group * 2026-2023
Global Greens Congress 2023 was a turning point for the Indigenous Network; [2] Uncle James Williams; [3] Aunty Trish Frail; [4] Convenor Dominic WYKanak; [5] Ropata Moore; [6] Helen Rachana Shrestha; and [7] Pefi Kingi.
Ropata Moore * Aotearoa
Rachana Shrestha * Nepal
Dominic WYKanak - First Nations Aus
Aunty Trish Frail - First Nations Aus
Uncle James Williams - First Nations Aus
Helen Ryan Sykes* Aotearoa
Dr Fadi El Jamal * Middle East Advisor
TBC - FVPA
Edmar Moldo - Philippines
Anne Marie Bhiribake - Africa
Dr Yu Ru Liu * Taiwan
Anne Pakoa - Vanuatu
Domino Kai - Europe
Palestine (Advisor)
TBC - FVPA
From 2023 to 2001
Global Greens Congress - Liverpool 2017; Dakar 2012; Sao Paulo, 2008; and Canberra 2001. Who were the Supporters for the Indigenous Network then?
Our Indigenous Network Secretariat & Supporters
The INIDIG-NET have also tried to track their history back, should you have any information - drop us a line
Tankiu Tumas, our Secretariat
Global Greens Congress 2023 was a turning point for the Indigenous Network; [2] Uncle James Williams; [3] Aunty Trish Frail; [4] Convenor Dominic WYKanak; [5] Ropata Moore; [6] Helen Rachana Shrestha; and [7] Pefi Kingi.
Bos Haiosi
Kelesi Ngata
Pefi Kingi
Rachana Shrestha
Joseph Fonorito
Pita Loloma
Amber Fang
Fakaaue Tulou, Our Secretariat Supporters
Our Pacific workers from @ PacificwinPacific & @Pacific Migration Partners who are always willing to lend a hand.
WHAT WE DO
Indigenous Theory of Change
Indigenous peoples exercise full sovereignty over lands, knowledge, and futures, with climate justice, cultural continuity, and self-determined development realised globally.
C■OUR POLICY ADVOCACY
D■OUR ACTIONS
D■OUR ACTIONS
Just Transitions
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A Just Transition must move beyond economic restructuring to include:
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Indigenous Principles
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Transition from extractive → regenerative economies
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Protection of customary land ownership and stewardship
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Recognition of Indigenous economies (subsistence, relational, circular)
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Critical Gaps Identified
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Exclusion of Indigenous peoples from transition planning
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Failure to account for cultural and spiritual impacts
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Lack of Indigenous access to green jobs and financing
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Network Role
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Advocate for Indigenous-defined Just Transition pathways
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Embed Indigenous indicators into global frameworks
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Ensure transitions do not reproduce colonial harm
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5■Climate Justice (Indigenous Lens)
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- Climate justice is:
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A rights-based, historically grounded response to colonialism, extraction, and environmental harm
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A recognition that Indigenous peoples are disproportionately impacted but least responsible
- Priority Areas
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Climate impacts on land, identity, language, and culture
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Recognition of climate mobility and immobility
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Protection of Indigenous environmental defenders
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Addressing militarisation and environmental destruction
- Strategic Position
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Climate justice must be Indigenous-led, place-based, and sovereignty-driven
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Moves beyond adaptation → towards restorative justice
Climate Mobility / Immobility
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Key Concepts
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Mobility = migration, relocation, displacement
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Immobility = inability to move, forced staying
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Indigenous Priorities
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Right to remain on ancestral lands
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Protection of identity in mobility contexts
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Recognition of planned relocation as last resort
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Strategic Alignment
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Global Compact for Migration (GCM)
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Paris Agreement (Adaptation & Loss and Damage)
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Regional frameworks (e.g., Pacific climate mobility frameworks)
Indigenous Hard at Work
This is where our journey begins. Get to know our business and what we do, and how we're committed to quality and great service. Join us as we grow and succeed together. We're glad you're here to be a part of our story.
Well Done Good Work Indigenous Network at the Global Greens 25th Anniversary * 16-17 April 2026!
Engagement * An effective tool for our advocacy
This is where our journey begins. Get to know our business and what we do, and how we're committed to quality and great service. Join us as we grow and succeed together. We're glad you're here to be a part of our story.
A■OUR FOUNDATION
B■OUR FOUNDATION
C■OUR POLICY ADVOCACY
1■indigenous Foundation & Worldview
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The Indigenous Network is grounded in Indigenous knowledge systems, relational worldviews, and sovereignty principles that recognise:
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The inseparability of people, land, ocean, language, and spirit
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The centrality of vā (relational space), reciprocity, and collective responsibility
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The authority of Indigenous peoples as knowledge holders, decision-makers, and rights-bearers
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Building on the Global Greens Charter and the origins of the Network (2012–2025), Indigenous knowledge is recognised as essential to:
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ecological balance
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peaceful coexistence
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climate resilience and intergenerational survival
2■Indigenous Rights and Governance
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The Network operationalises the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) as a binding ethical and political framework.
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Core Rights Areas
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Self-determination and sovereignty
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Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC)
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Rights to lands, territories, and resources
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Cultural, linguistic, and spiritual protection
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Participation in decision-making
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Operational Commitments
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Embed Indigenous leadership at all levels
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Ensure co-governance and shared decision-making
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Reject extractive, tokenistic, or consultation-only approaches
3■Loss & Damage
- Economic Loss and Damage
- Loss of land, livelihoods, infrastructure
- Displacement and forced migration
- Economic marginalisation and exclusion from climate finance
- Non-Economic Loss and Damage (NELD)
- Loss of language, identity, and cultural practices
- Loss of sacred sites and ancestral knowledge
- Intergenerational trauma and spiritual disconnection
- Indigenous Position
- NELD is not secondary — it is central
- Must be recognised in:
- climate finance mechanisms
- policy frameworks
- monitoring and evaluation systems
- Action Priorities
- Direct access to Loss & Damage finance (including FRLD)
- Indigenous-led assessment frameworks
- Integration of cultural indicators into global systems
Indigenous Network in support of APGF Middle East Members
Lebanon Greens
Palestina Greens
Jordanian Greens
Iraqi Greens
Attacks on Iran
Engagement * An effective tool for our advocacy
This is where our journey begins. Get to know our business and what we do, and how we're committed to quality and great service. Join us as we grow and succeed together. We're glad you're here to be a part of our story.
■OUR COLLABORATIONS
■OUR CAPACITY BUILDING
7■Climate & Militarised Impacts
*COP31-COMMITTEE in development
- Climate justice is:
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A rights-based, historically grounded response to colonialism, extraction, and environmental harm
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A recognition that Indigenous peoples are disproportionately impacted but least responsible
- Priority Areas
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Climate impacts on land, identity, language, and culture
-
Recognition of climate mobility and immobility
-
Protection of Indigenous environmental defenders
-
Addressing militarisation and environmental destruction
- Strategic Position
-
Climate justice must be Indigenous-led, place-based, and sovereignty-driven
- Moves beyond adaptation → towards restorative justice
■Other Key Priorities
*COP31-COMMITTEE in development
- Key Concepts
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Mobility = migration, relocation, displacement
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Immobility = inability to move, forced staying
- Indigenous Priorities
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Right to remain on ancestral lands
-
Protection of identity in mobility contexts
-
Recognition of planned relocation as last resort
- Strategic Alignment
-
Global Compact for Migration (GCM)
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Paris Agreement (Adaptation & Loss and Damage)
- Regional frameworks (e.g., Pacific climate mobility frameworks)
Indigenous Network Delegates at Global COP28
We try to work hard at marking our milestones, congratulations Greens!
Activists, including Eric Njuguna, PC: Rafiq Maqpool of APNews
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Activists designated Saturday a day of protest at the COP28 summit in Dubai. But the rules of the game in the tightly controlled United Arab Emirates at the site supervised by the United Nations meant sharp restrictions on what demonstrators could say, where they could walk and what their signs could portray. At times, the controls bordered on the absurd. A small group of demonstrators protesting the detention of activists — one from Egypt and two from the UAE — was not allowed to hold up signs bearing their names. A late afternoon demonstration of around 500 people, the largest seen at the climate conference, couldn’t go beyond the U.N.-governed Blue Zone in this autocratic nation. And their calls for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip couldn’t name the parties involved. “It is a shocking level of censorship in a space that had been guaranteed to have basic freedoms protected like freedom of expression, assembly and association,” Joey Shea, a researcher at Human Rights Watch focused on the Emirates, told The Associated Press after their restricted demonstration.
Delegates' Stifled Solidarity for Palestine at Global COP28
DUBAI - More than 100 activists in the Dubai Expo City where this year's COP28 U.N. climate summit is being held took part in a protest on Sunday to call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. The protests were unusual to see in the United Arab Emirates where freedom of expression is limited, but as hosts of the annual U.N. conference, the UAE is allowing protests to take place at COP28 itself. Holding banners calling for a "ceasefire" and "climate decolonisation", activists chanted "Free, Free Palestine". Others at the rally said there could be "no climate justice without human rights", but they were careful not criticise Israel by name to adhere to U.N. guidelines. A COP28 spokesperson said the UAE protects the right to protest in line with international agreements. UAE authorities did not immediately reply to a request for comment on the protests. The war in Gaza has featured prominently at COP28, where several world leaders on Friday spoke critically of Israel's bombardment.
Indigenous Network Members at other Global COPs
We try to work hard at marking our milestones, congratulations Greens!
Engagement * Effective tool for our advocacy
This is where our journey begins. Get to know our business and what we do, and how we're committed to quality and great service. Join us as we grow and succeed together. We're glad you're here to be a part of our story.
Engagement * Effective tool for our advocacy
This is where our journey begins. Get to know our business and what we do, and how we're committed to quality and great service. Join us as we grow and succeed together. We're glad you're here to be a part of our story.
Former Pacific Delegates
Pefi Kingi, & Indigenous Network Delegate 2023
Dominic WYKanak, Local Councillor & Indigenous Network Delegate 2025
Kelesi Ngata, & Indigenous Network Delegate 2024
Indigenous-Led is Right & a Right
The INIDIG-NET have also tried to track their history back, should you have any information - drop us a line
Our Engagement & GFMD
Indigenous Network Delegate at the GFMD, Colombia, September 2025
Former Pacific Delegates
Pefi Kingi & Debs Misiuepa * Post GFMD Quito, Peru
GFMD Hosts * France, 2022
Pefi Kingi & Debs Misiuepa * GFMD Quito, Peru, 2019
Indigenous-Led is a Right & Right
The INIDIG-NET have also tried to track their history back, should you have any information - drop us a line
Indigenous International Day #everyday
This is where our journey begins. Get to know our business and what we do, and how we're committed to quality and great service. Join us as we grow and succeed together. We're glad you're here to be a part of our story.
#indigenousdayeveryday
Indig-Net with Regional Partners in climate mobility
This is where our journey begins. Get to know our business and what we do, and how we're committed to quality and great service. Join us as we grow and succeed together. We're glad you're here to be a part of our story.
Webinars have been a significant means of engaging with and on behalf of our Sub-Regional APGF Community.
Protest Advocacy for LEBANON, we stand with the Civilians, with particular attention on the Children, Women and the Elderly!
Indig-Net at global and international levels
This is where our journey begins. Get to know our business and what we do, and how we're committed to quality and great service. Join us as we grow and succeed together. We're glad you're here to be a part of our story.
Climate Mobility & Climate Immobility
Indigenous Network Delegates at Diverse High Level Fora
We try to work hard at marking our milestones, congratulations Greens!
APGWN Gender Training * Effective tool of our capacity building
This is where our journey begins. Get to know our business and what we do, and how we're committed to quality and great service. Join us as we grow and succeed together. We're glad you're here to be a part of our story.
APGF-APGWN-IDC Training in Fiji 2023
Huge Thank You to all International Development Coordinators
Indigenous Network Key Global Advocacy
Indigenous Theory of Change
Indigenous peoples exercise full sovereignty over lands, knowledge, and futures, with climate justice, cultural continuity, and self-determined development realised globally.
Indig-Net Delegates at the Global Greens Congress 2023 & other GGCs
We try to work hard at marking our milestones, congratulations Greens!
INDIGENOUS NETWORK Members * Hard At Work
This is where our journey begins. Get to know our business and what we do, and how we're committed to quality and great service. Join us as we grow and succeed together. We're glad you're here to be a part of our story.
APGF Congratulations for those Indig-Net "Firsts"!
We try to work hard at marking our milestones, congratulations Greens!
Thank You, Indigenous Network for your Green Work!
Join us and make a Difference!
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