E/2022/43 E/C.19/2022/11 indigenous peoples are seized and livelihoods are destroyed to the detriment of their knowledge, cultures and languages. In that respect, it is important to remind Member States of their duty to protect. 6. Moreover, the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights outline the rights of indigenous peoples. According to the Guiding Principles, businesses have a corporate responsibility to respect human rights. 7. Appropriate legislation, effective enforcement and participation by indigenous peoples are crucial to ensure that business activities that impact indigenous peoples ’ communities in any manner are guided by the obligation to respect human rights and the environment. 8. Businesses, in their human rights due diligence processes, should meaningfully engage with indigenous peoples as rights holders in business decisions a nd outcomes affecting them. In that regard, free, prior and informed consent should be understood as their right to give or withhold consent. 9. The Permanent Forum recommends that the International Labour Organization (ILO), the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and other relevant United Nations system agencies, in cooperation with the Permanent Forum, study and summarize practices regarding the implementation of free, prior and informed consent globally, that they widely disseminate successful experiences and that they present their findings to the Permanent Forum at its twenty fourth session, to be held in 2025. 10. Member States must take urgent measures to guarantee adequate and effective participation by indigenous peoples in the design and implementation of national plans for the transition to clean and green energy. Where States have already begun the development of such plans without the participation of indigenous peoples, they must take remedial action. 11. The Permanent Forum invites the World Trade Organization to prepare an analysis of the ways in which indigenous peoples are affected by and included in international trade agreements and treaties, and to present it to the Permanent Forum at its twenty-third session, to be held in 2024. 12. The Permanent Forum invites the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the situation of human rights defenders to prepare a study on the drivers of attacks against indigenous human rights defenders in business contexts and invites the Special Rapporteur to share information on progress with the Permanent Forum at its twenty-second session, to be held in 2023. 13. The Permanent Forum underlines the crucial role of languages, traditional knowledge and cultural heritage in the economic development of indigenous peoples, as well as their entrepreneurship role for the enjoyment of their rights to culture, language and traditional knowledge. 14. The Permanent Forum regrets the lack of progress in enhancing partici pation by indigenous peoples at the World Intellectual Property Organization and reiterates previous requests that that Organization adopt a legally binding document to protect the traditional knowledge and intellectual property of indigenous peoples. 15. The Permanent Forum requests ILO, IFAD and the United Nations Development Programme to prepare a study, in collaboration with indigenous peoples, summarizing the experience of implementing programmes for indigenous peoples on socioeconomic development, focussing on best practices in entrepreneurship and creative industries, and to present it to the Permanent Forum at its twenty -third session, to be held in 2024. 6/27 22-07676