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Recommendations for the ethical and equitable engagement of Indigenous Knowledge Systems within the IPCC

Publisher: University of British Columbia (UBC), Assembly of First Nations (AFN), IWGIA and Tohu Indigenous Analytics
Author: Pasang Y. Sherpa, Graeme Reed, Rosario Carmona and Ritodhi Chakraborty
Number of pages: 61
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Global
Financially supported by: Wellcome Trust
Release year: 2026
Release Month | Day: February

Tags: Climate

Indigenous Peoples and their Knowledge Systems offer a holistic understanding of climate change causes, impacts, and time-tested adaptation, mitigation,and resilience responses grounded in millennia of systematic observation and intergenerational transmission. Despite being disproportionately affected by climate change due to historical and contemporary colonial dispossession and structural inequality, Indigenous Peoples are not merely vulnerable populations—they are frontline climate leaders whose territorial governance and sciences are essential to understanding and responding to the climate crisis.

Yet Indigenous Peoples and their Knowledge Systems remain largely marginalised in global climate science and policy processes, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This policy document addresses this marginalisation by providing a practice-oriented guide for ethicaland equitable engagement with Indigenous Knowledge Systems within the IPCC.

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