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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: Academia, United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies, UN system/UN agencies

Paragraph Number: 20
Session: 7 (2008)
Full Text:

The Permanent Forum recommends that the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies, university research centres and relevant United Nations agencies conduct further studies on the impacts of climate change and climate change responses on indigenous peoples who are living in highly fragile ecosystems, such as low-lying coastal areas and small island States; semi-arid and arid lands and dry and sub-humid lands (grasslands); tropical and subtropical forests; and high mountain areas.

Area of Work: Environment