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Addressee: Green Climate Fund
Paragraph Number: 133
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum recognizes the efforts of the Green Climate Fund and its Indigenous Peoples’ advisory group, and recommends that the Fund develop a road map for dedicated, predictable funding for Indigenous Peoples, including through capacity-building at the national level to ensure that the Fund’s Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme2 supports Indigenous Peoples. The Forum requests a progress report at its next session in 2025.
Area of Work: Funding and Resources, Capacity Building, Climate Change
Addressee: UNFCCC, Member States
Paragraph Number: 99
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum invites the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to share the findings of the next open multi-stakeholder dialogues on the operationalization of the local communities and indigenous peoples platform at the seventeenth session of the Forum. The Forum urges Member States to operationalize the platform in accordance with the provisions of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Environment, Climate Change
Addressee: Sahel and Great Lakes regions
Paragraph Number: 77
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum is concerned about the impacts of climate change in the Sahel and Great Lakes regions, which have triggered armed conflicts and displacement, and heightened the vulnerability of Indigenous Peoples. The Forum calls for regional climate action.
Area of Work: Climate Change
Addressee: International community
Paragraph Number: 139
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum encourages and commends the development and implementation of environmental monitoring systems led by Indigenous Peoples that utilize the knowledge of Indigenous Peoples and modern technology to oversee and manage natural resources effectively. Such approaches that are aligned with Indigenous Peoples’ autonomy objectives provide valuable data for global environmental efforts.
Area of Work: Climate Change, Autonomy and Self-determination
Addressee: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Paragraph Number: 30
Session: 22 (2023)
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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.
Area of Work: Environment, Climate Change
Paragraph Number: 121
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the efforts of the International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on Climate Change in addressing terminology related to Indigenous Peoples and local communities. The Forum urges Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to uphold the principles established during the twenty-third session of the Conference of the Parties in the upcoming review of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform at the twenty - ninth session, ensuring equal status and financial support for Indigenous Peoples within the Platform at all levels. The Forum supports the establishment of a separate platform for Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Climate Change, Funding and Resources, Participation
Paragraph Number: 53
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum is concerned about the harms and injustices caused in certain instances by carbon markets and biodiversity credits on Indigenous Peoples’ lands and territories and biodiversity. The Forum urges the secretariats of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, to demand highintegrity projects that have clear accountability for carbon emissions and biodiversity as well as measured benefits for Indigenous Peoples. The Forum invites the aforementioned entities to report on their actions at its session in 2025.
Area of Work: Climate Change, Lands and Resources
Addressee: Member States; International organizations
Paragraph Number: 137
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum reiterates its calls to Member States and international organizations to include Indigenous Peoples actively in policymaking forums and development agendas. This inclusion should extend to negotiations and management forums under multilateral environment agreements and other relevant platforms and processes focusing on issues affecting Indigenous Peoples and where their voices and knowledge guarantee significant contributions and outcomes for global sustainable development and the health of global ecosystems.
Area of Work: Participation, Economic and Social Development, Climate Change
