E/2010/43 E/C.19/2010/15 137. The Permanent Forum welcomes the joint initiative of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Association of World Reindeer Herders, and the International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry aimed at assessing the impacts of land-use change and climate change on nomadic pastoralists and on their adaptation options and opportunities, focusing on taiga reindeer herding in the Russian Federation, Mongolia and China, and yak herding in the Himalayas. The objective of the project is to increase the resilience and capacity to adapt to climate change of the nomadic communities while building partnerships between reindeer- and yakherding communities, strengthening local institutions and increasing the capacity of nomadic herders to engage in land-use and natural resource management. 138. The Permanent Forum calls on the Inter-American Development Bank to establish an advisory council of indigenous peoples to implement its strategy on indigenous peoples. 139. The Permanent Forum decides to appoint Lars-Anders Baer, a member of the Forum, as a Special Rapporteur to undertake a study on the impacts of the cumulative effects of land fragmentation, natural resource exploration, diminishing land and associated rights, together with the multiple effects of climate change, on traditional indigenous economies and land management by reindeer herders, to be completed by 31 December 2010 and submitted to the Permanent Forum at its tenth session. 140. The Permanent Forum decides to appoint Paimaneh Hasteh, a member of the Forum, as a Special Rapporteur to conduct an analysis on the duty of the State to protect indigenous peoples affected by transnational corporations and other business enterprises, to be submitted to the Forum at its eleventh session, in 2012. 141. The Permanent Forum decides to appoint Lars-Anders Baer, as a Special Rapporteur to undertake a study on the status of implementation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord of 1997, to be completed by 31 December 2010 and submitted to the Forum at its tenth session. 142. The Permanent Forum decides to appoint as a Special Rapporteur Elisa Canqui Mollo, a member of the Forum, to conduct a study on forced labour and indigenous peoples, to be completed by 31 December 2010 and submitted to the Forum at its tenth session. 143. The Permanent Forum decides to appoint Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, a member of the Forum, as a Special Rapporteur to prepare a study on indigenous peoples and forests, to be completed by 31 December 2010 and submitted to the Forum at its tenth session. 144. The Permanent Forum decides to appoint Bartolome Clavero Salvador, a member of the Permanent Forum, as a Special Rapporteur to conduct a study on international criminal law and the judicial defence of indigenous peoples’ rights, to be completed by 31 December 2010 and submitted to the Forum at its tenth session. 145. The Permanent Forum expresses its deep appreciation to the sponsors of the screening of the movie Avatar, which took place during the ninth session and was arranged by the secretariat of the Forum. The Forum would also like to thank James Cameron, the director of the movie, for his presence at the screening and for his participation in the panel discussion that was held after the screening. The Forum also welcomes Mr. Cameron’s support for indigenous film-makers and his offer to assist them in future. 22 10-36959