E/2008/43 E/C.19/2008/13 Permanent Forum and the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance in April 2008. 14. The Forum welcomes the forthcoming global summit on indigenous peoples and climate change, which is being organized by the Inuit Circumpolar Council with the assistance of other indigenous peoples’ organizations. 15. The Forum thanks the special rapporteurs, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz and Aqqaluk Lynge, for their report on the impact of climate change mitigation measures on indigenous peoples and on their territories and lands, 1 and supports the recommendations highlighted in that report. 2 16. The recommendations set out below must be implemented in accordance with the principles and rules of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 3 especially in accordance with its articles 19 (the principle of free, prior and informed consent), 29 (the right to the conservation and protection of the environment and the productive capacity of their lands or territories and resources), 31 (the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their cultural heritage, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions, as well as the manifestations of their sciences, technologies and cultures, including human and genetic resources, seeds, medicines, knowledge of the properties of fauna and flora, oral traditions, literatures, designs, sports and traditional games and visual and performing arts) and 32 (the right to determine and develop priorities and strategies for the development or use of their lands or territories and other resources). General recommendations 17. The Permanent Forum recommends that, in the Arctic, Amazon and Congo basins and the Sahara oases, which are indicators of climate change for the rest of the world, Member States work closely with indigenous peoples. The discussions and negotiations on climate change should respect the rights of indigenous peoples to nurture and develop their traditional knowledge and their environment-friendly technologies. In the case of indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation and inhabiting the most biodiverse areas in the Amazon, the primary requirement of their free prior and informed consent for any alien intervention must be stressed. 18. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples should serve as a key and binding framework in the formulation of plans for development and should be considered fundamental in all processes related to climate change at the local, national, regional and global levels. The safeguard policies of the multilateral banks and the existing and future policies on indigenous peoples of United Nations bodies and other multilateral bodies should be implemented in all climate change-related projects and programmes. 19. The Forum recommends that States, United Nations agencies, bodies and funds, other multilateral bodies and financial institutions and other donors provide technical and financial support to protect and nurture indigenous peoples’ natural resource management, environment-friendly technologies, biodiversity and cultural diversity and low-carbon, traditional livelihoods (pastoralism; rotational or swidden agriculture; hunting and gathering and trapping; marine and coastal livelihoods; __________________ 1 2 3 4 E/C.19/2008/10. Ibid., paras. 68-90. General Assembly resolution 61/295, annex. 08-33882