Protecting Indigenous Peoples’ land rights in global climate governance

This chapter suggests that although the protection of Indigenous Peoples' land rights has considerably featured in the climate global governance, it accommodates certain notions which may undermine the protection of Indigenous Peoples' land rights at the national level. It explains the global climate governance, emphasising relevant development at that level. Indigenous Peoples' rights, arguably including their land tenure and use, have gained considerable space in the Subsidiary Body for Implementation role. The emerging international climate change regulatory framework reflects certain notions which may legitimise states' inadequate formulation of the domestic regulatory framework in addressing the adverse impacts of climate change on Indigenous Peoples' land tenure and use. The protection of Indigenous Peoples is progressively featuring in the global climate governance. It is particularly discernible in the normative arrangement under the framework and the functioning of institutions at that level.