Indigenous Peoples Platform

The body was created to advance the LCIPP and support its three key functions: knowledge sharing, engagement capacity, and climate policy implementation.[1] This entails the following:

1. Knowledge sharing: the promotion of ethical and equitable knowledge exchange on climate solutions, prioritising holistic views from members of the LCIPP, including Indigenous Peoples, local communities, Parties and other contributors.[2]

2. Engagement capacity: increasing engagement of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Parties in the UNFCCC process by building capacity.

3. Climate policy implementation: improving climate policy-making and implementation by integrating various perspectives, knowledge systems, values and worldviews on climate issues.[3]

 

For this process, the FWG works in partnership with both internal and external organisations to improve the consistency of the Platform's actions within the framework of the Convention.[4]

 

Did you know that Indigenous Peoples, numbering over 476 million and representing more than 5,000 cultures, preserve 80% of the world’s biodiversity and 36% of intact forests, living in unique ecosystems like the Amazon and the Arctic?

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