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… INDIGENOUS AND TRADITIONAL PEOPLES AND CLIMATE CHANGE Issues Paper Final Draft January 2008 Lead author: … Current pressing issues in relation to climate change mitigation measures ................................. 38 … Indigenous and traditional peoples and climate change …

… systems – a critical asset in an era of dramatic global change. Sacred natural sites are significant due to their … food, air and water, most essen- tial in stabilizing climate, most unique in cultural and natural heritage and … is an important new area of investigation. One area of mitigation might be to develop lists of vulnerable species …

… Examples Article 4 of the 1992 Climate Change Convention recognizes the special circumstances and … on Biological Diversity and in article 3(3) of the 1992 Climate Change Convention. The 1992 CBD states: “..where …

… (art. 10), and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (art. 6(a)), require environmental information to be … at the centre of their climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies” (paras. 49, 50). The Convention states …

… including with respect to air quality, the global climate, freshwater quality, marine pollution, waste, toxic … on many international en- vironmental problems, including climate change, ozone depletion, transboundary air pollution, marine …

… the planet’s natural resources in the face of accelerated climate change and a host of environmental problems that threaten … work is also essential to broader goals like combating climate change and ensuring sustainable development for …

… use of plants and animals, and addressing issues such as climate change, desertification and water quality n Because of their … local level adaptation and advice on sustainable mitigation activities n Traditional medicines are based on …

… interest to indigenous peoples in the aftermath of the climate change negotiations during COP 21 in Paris 2015, in that … in project scoping, design, implementation, M&E, mitigation and determination of the need for further review …

… tenure rights 33 22. Transboundary matters 33 Responses to climate change and emergencies 35 23. Climate change 35 24. Natural … tenure rights, in the negotiations and implementation of mitigation and adaptation programmes. 6PART 6 36 PART 6 …

… Now is the time to act and introduce en- vironmental mitigation —wherever that is possible— and preservation meas- … exac- erbated by the major threat of global cli- mate change, the need for widespread remedial action is becoming … tional significance and caused by global processes such as climate change (e.g. greenhouse gas emissions), overfishing …