ASSESSMENT & ADAPTATION
Promoting the inclusion of diverse knowledge systems within climate change processes, UNESCO provides decision-makers with an understanding of how indigenous knowledge contributes to assessing climate change, its impacts and the range of options for community adaptation. Indigenous knowledge has emerged as an essential ingredient of intergovernmental efforts for climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Processes
Indigenous knowledge has emerged as an essential ingredient of intergovernmental efforts for climate change adaptation and mitigation. National and intergovernmental processes are looking into how to work with indigenous knowledge
Events
There is now an urgent need to develop methods and tools to bring indigenous knowledge into national and global efforts as well as to build capacities to ensure the full and effective participation of indigenous knowledge holders in a transdisciplinary engagement with scientists and policy-makers