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Addressee: OCHA, UN system/UN agencies

Paragraph Number: 28
Session: 7 (2008)
Full Text:

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.

Area of Work: Environment, Economic and Social Development
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Addressee: Member States,

Paragraph Number: 10
Session: 7 (2008)
Full Text:

The principles of common but differentiated responsibilities, equity, social justice and sustainable development and development with identity should remain the key principles underpinning the negotiations, policies and programmes on climate change. The human rights-based approach to development and the ecosystem approach should guide the design and implementation of local, national, regional and global climate policies and projects. The crucial role of indigenous women and indigenous youth in developing mitigation and adaptation measures should also be ensured.

Area of Work: Environment