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Paragraph Number: 42
Session: 22 (2023)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), in collaboration with WHO, the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, FAO and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research prepare and implement a series of collaborative global and regional training sessions and seminars by 2025 for Indigenous Peoples concerning their traditional knowledge, traditional cultural expression, genetic resources, folklore, medicinal plants and traditional medicine, and their own food, beverage and medical products businesses.
Area of Work: Health, Traditional Knowledge
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 42
Session: 18 (2019)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that States implement emission reductions to limit the increase in average global temperature to no more than 1.5oC to avoid the increased impact of climate change.
Area of Work: Environment, Climate Change
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 56
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the invitation extended by the Russian Federation to hold a United Nations expert group meeting devoted to environmental and indigenous peoples’ issues in Khabarovsk, Russian Federation, in August 2007, and invites other States to follow its good example.
Area of Work: Environment
Addressee: UNEP, UN agencies, funds and programmes
Paragraph Number: 56
Session: 2 (2003)
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Taking into account decision 22/16 of the Governing Council of UNEP, the Forum recommends that UNEP and relevant United Nations agencies and programmes hold consultations at the regional and national levels with indigenous peoples to examine this issue and prepare recommendations on possible further strengthening of the understanding of the link between environment and cultural diversity.
Area of Work: Environment
