Governance · Climate
Indigenous Advisory Parliaments and Climate Justice
From institutional decoration to verification: how Indigenous representative bodies could become binding institutions in climate governance.
Op-Ed
The Energy Transition Has Lost Its Moral Exemption
Aluki Kotierk’s presentation of the 2026 UNPFII report to ECOSOC marks an important shift. Critical-mineral extraction is no longer a peripheral Indigenous rights concern.
The green purpose of a project does not excuse the colonial structure of its development. Lithium, nickel, copper and rare earth elements do not become ethical because they are destined for electric vehicles, electricity grids or renewable energy systems. The question after ECOSOC is whether recognition will be translated into project approval, finance, corporate liability and the authority of Indigenous Peoples to decide what happens on their lands.
Projects & Tools All →
Interactive Project · Electoral design
Redistricting Simulator
Explore how district lines can crack, pack or protect an underrepresented group without changing the underlying population.
Open simulator →Monitor · Telegram bot
KMNS-Monitor
A parser tracking regulatory acts affecting Indigenous peoples of Russia — so you don't miss changes buried in government feeds. Delivered to Telegram.
Open in Telegram →Game · FPIC · Decision-making
Tamaani
A simulation game on free, prior and informed consent, extractive industries, risk and community decision-making under pressure.
tamaani.org →Prototype Tool · Rights monitoring · Methodology
Indigenous Rights Balance
A live dashboard for tracking how court decisions, UN processes, state measures and institutional shifts move the balance of Indigenous Peoples’ rights.
Open dashboard → Research & Publications All papers →
Climate · UN
Climate Obligations, Indigenous Rights, and Russia’s Vote at the UN General Assembly
What Russia’s vote against the ICJ climate resolution reveals about climate obligations, human rights and Indigenous participation.
Critical minerals · Accountability
Critical Mineral Security Has a Blind Spot
Why FPIC, social licence and relationship risk should be treated as mineral supply security indicators.
Climate law · Litigation
When the Green Transition Goes to Court
How climate litigation is expanding into critical minerals, carbon markets, just transition and Indigenous rights.
Explainers
Resource Nationalism
A field guide to four mechanisms of resource nationalism — and the blind spot that appears when state control over rent is mistaken for community consent.
Read the analysis →Free, Prior and Informed Consent
FPIC is not a consultation meeting or a social licence slogan. It is the right of Indigenous Peoples to grant, withhold, condition or withdraw consent before decisions affecting their lands, territories and resources are made.
Read the analysis →Transition Minerals
Critical minerals are not only a supply-chain issue. They are becoming a rights, finance and accountability problem wherever extraction overlaps with Indigenous lands and climate-transition policy.
Read the explainer →Opportunity Districts
An opportunity district is designed to give an underrepresented community a real chance to elect a representative of its choice — under public criteria, legal constraints and institutional scrutiny.
Open simulator →Cracking and Packing
Cracking splits a community across districts so it wins nowhere. Packing concentrates it into one district so its votes are wasted there. Both can preserve formal voting rights while weakening collective representation.
Read the analysis →Who Finances a Mining Project?
Public money can enter a project through development banks, export credit agencies, guarantees and insurers. Each route creates a different trail of safeguards, disclosure duties and possible complaints.
Read the guide →Why Mineral Security Needs Indigenous Rights
A secure supply chain is not only a question of geology, processing and geopolitics. Projects that ignore consent and relationships can create the very delays and conflicts that security strategies are meant to prevent.
Read the analysis →What Does Climate Litigation Change?
Climate cases are moving beyond emissions targets. Courts are increasingly asked to examine transition minerals, carbon markets, government duties and whether climate action respects Indigenous rights.
Read the analysis →Can Compensation Repair Cultural Loss?
Courts may recognise cultural harm while still valuing the economic loss of extraction narrowly. The gap between recognition and remedy shows why compensation cannot be the only accountability mechanism.
Read the case →Can an Advisory Parliament Hold Power?
Indigenous representative bodies matter only when institutions can verify their mandate, carry decisions into governance and make participation consequential rather than decorative.
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Where to Press the Company?
A practical navigator for communities facing corporate environmental harm: prevention, evidence, due diligence, finance and FPIC.
Resource Nationalism Has Four Mechanisms — and One Blind Spot
A field guide to four mechanisms of resource nationalism — and the blind spot that appears when state control over rent is mistaken for community consent.
Public Money for Mining
A practical guide for communities and CSOs: who finances mining, what it means for you, and where to file a complaint.
Critical Mineral Security Has a Blind Spot
The IEA’s Global Critical Minerals Outlook 2026 treats mineral security as industrial statecraft. Its blind spot is relationship risk with Indigenous Peoples.