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27. The Permanent Forum calls on all United Nations agencies and States to
support the reclamation of traditional practices and laws leading to global solutions
to climate change.
28. The Permanent Forum recommends that the Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs and other relevant United Nations agencies further develop
and enhance natural disaster preparedness and mitigation strategies involving
indigenous peoples in the development and implementation of those strategies.
29. The Permanent Forum recommends that the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) promote the elaboration of a report on
the impacts of climate change and indigenous peoples by the special rapporteur on
the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people.
Participation
30. The Permanent Forum recommends that the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change and relevant parties develop mechanisms for
indigenous peoples’ participation, as appropriate, in all aspects of the international
dialogue on climate change, particularly the forthcoming negotiations for the next
Kyoto Protocol commitment period, including by establishing a working group on
local adaptation measures and traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples. The
Forum encourages dialogue and cooperation among indigenous peoples, particularly
indigenous women and youth, States, conservation and development organizations
and donors in order to strengthen the participation of indigenous peoples in dialogue
on climate change.
31. The Permanent Forum calls on States to ensure that indigenous peoples that
are undertaking their own mitigation measures are provided with policy support,
technical assistance, funding and capacity-building in order to deepen their
knowledge on climate change and to allow them to implement more effective
mitigation and adaptation strategies. They should gain benefits from the
environmental services derived from their territories and resources. Processes and
mechanisms for the valuation of these environmental services, and methods that
allow them to get adequate benefits, should be developed jointly with them. Efforts
to create better documentation of good practices in mitigation and adaptation and to
replicate and upscale these practices should likewise be supported.
32. The Permanent Forum supports collaborations between indigenous groups and
conservation organizations that bring together traditional and scientific knowledge
holders to add the wealth of current and historical knowledge of indigenous peoples
to the analysis of impacts of climate change and to mitigation solutions and
adaptation strategies — recognizing and respecting the United Nations Declaration
on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the provisions of article 8 (j) of the
Convention on Biological Diversity.
33. The Permanent Forum recommends that donors and United Nations agencies
give more support to indigenous peoples in Africa, where appropriate, to promote,
recognize, protect and enhance indigenous traditional knowledge.
34. The Permanent Forum requests the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change to undertake a specific assessment of the opportunities and threats for
indigenous peoples arising from the various greenhouse gas emission strategies that
are currently in place and will potentially come into operation to mitigate the
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