E/2023/43 E/C.19/2023/7 must be the minimum standard and be prioritized as an essential prerequisite for the full implementation of target 3 1 of the Framework. 29. The Permanent Forum welcomes the updated IFAD Policy on Engagement with Indigenous Peoples, developed in consultation with the steering committee of the Indigenous Peoples’ Forum at IFAD, and recommends that IFAD further strengthen its policies on consultations and Indigenous Peoples’ food systems. These should include, inter alia, a focus on climate change, food security, and strengthening country-level partnerships, and resource mobilization. 30. The Permanent Forum recommends that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change prepare a special report within its seventh assessment cycle, led by Indigenous academics, scientists and traditional knowledge holders, to assess the opportunities for and threats against Indigenous Peoples in the areas of adaptation, mitigation, and loss and damage. 31. The Permanent Forum notes that targeted programmes and measures and the allocation of resources for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals at local levels are needed to adequately address the situation of Indigenous Peoples. Special theme of the session: “Indigenous Peoples, human health, planetary and territorial health and climate change: a rights-based approach” (item 3) 32. Indigenous Peoples view health as an equilibrium of all that exists. The health of the land and the health of Indigenous Peoples are synonymous, nurtured through balanced relationships with the physical, spiritual and social environments. 33. The destruction of the Earth is driving a global health and humanitarian crisis. Colonization and colonialism and market forces beyond democratic control have driven not only the inequities and injustices in health outcomes facing Indigenous Peoples, but also the destruction of the planet. Indigenous Peoples suffer the most immediate and drastic impacts of this crisis. The unique cosmovision and world views of Indigenous Peoples are essential to protecting the health of humans and of Mother Earth. 34. The Permanent Forum urges Member States and United Nations entities, in particular the World Health Organization (WHO), to recognize that Indigenous views of human and planetary health must be central to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and emphasizes the central need to stabilize and regenerate the biosphere as essential for protecting humanity. The right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, the right to health and development and the rights of Indigenous Peoples must be seen as interconnected and essential to an integrated planetary health governance framework. 35. The Permanent Forum welcomes the study on Indigenous determinants of health in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (E/C.19/2023/5), presented at its twenty-second session. The Permanent Forum calls upon Member States and United Nations entities, particularly WHO, to adopt indigeneity as an overarching determinant of health, including in relation to the relevant Sustainable Development Goals and in policies and practices across the United Nations system. 36. Along with the recognition of the rights of Indigenous Peoples to their traditional medicine and to maintain their health practices, as guaranteed in article 24 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the __________________ 1 23-08492 Target 3 of the Global Biodiversity Framework: to ensure that at least 30 per cent of terrestrial, inland water and of coastal and marine areas are effectively conserved and managed. 9/24