📅 30 August 2022 🕑2.00pm – 4.00pm CEST
Both assessments followed a rigorous approach to working with indigenous and local knowledge, including a series of dialogue workshops with indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) and contributions from authors across a range of disciplines and knowledge systems.
This has resulted in messages highlighting the importance of indigenous and local knowledge and the participation of IPLCs in managing the sustainable use of wild species, and the ways that indigenous and local knowledge can contribute to the valuation of nature. These messages have now been approved by the 139 member countries of IPBES.
In this webinar, authors from the two assessments will present these messages, and IPLCs will reflect on their importance, and next steps at local, national, and global levels.
Indigenous and local knowledge is central to the conservation and sustainable use of ecosystems. This knowledge is formed through the direct dependence of IPLCs on their local ecosystems, and observations and interpretations of change generated and passed down over many generations, and yet adapted and enriched over time. IPLCs from around the world often live in remote areas, interacting with nature and managing resources that contribute to society at large.
They also suffer directly from the pressures of expanding agriculture frontiers and commodity production, such as mining, logging, and energy. They are often better placed than scientists to provide detailed information on local biodiversity and environmental change and are important contributors to the governance of biodiversity from local to global levels.
