Nia Tero - 2021 Annual Report - Report - Page 80
STRATEGY & ORGANIZATION CAPACITY
Development
Nia Tero exists to amplify and support Indigenous
peoples’ outsized contributions to the health of the
Earth’s climate and biodiversity.
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We are succeeding in attracting new
resources to this cause, thanks in part
to growing consensus among funders
that addressing the climate crisis is the
result of a lack of timely action—not a
lack of cost-effective, scalable solutions.
well as the people who care for them.
Unlawful and unethical incursions are
resulting in ongoing violence against
Indigenous peoples, catastrophic
climate change, and the world’s sixth
mass extinction of biodiversity.
Since its founding five years ago, Nia
Tero has expanded its support to 102
million hectares of sacred lands,
which sequester 25.2 gigatons (Gt)
of carbon. This scale has been made
possible by the trust our board and
staff have built over decades with our
Indigenous partners. Nonetheless,
threats are mounting and we are on
the verge of permanently losing these
vulnerable yet manageable areas, as
With this urgency and sense of
responsibility in mind, Nia Tero
funders committed a total of $16
million of new funding in 2020. They
did so because they acknowledge that
centuries of evidence demonstrate how
Indigenous guardianship: 1) provides
the most durable and robust form of
conser- vation on Earth, including in
the boreal peatlands, the tropical
rainforests of the Amazon, and the
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