• Building Resilient CommunitiesCommnities are strengthening their traditional governance systems and customary use of biodiversity, consolidating their territorial management, and building capacity to make decisions and take actions that enable creative solutions based on traditional knowledge and practices. Knowledge and practices relating to biodiversity and livelihoods are the vehicle for ensuring food sovereignty and brighter futures for coming generations.

• Supporting Climate Change ScienceUsing sophisticated local knowledge which has developed over millenia of co-evolution with ecosystems and dealing with changes, the IPCCA local assessments provide local knowledge on climatic phenomena and their impacts which is complementary to Western scientific knolwedge.

• Strenghtening National PoliciesResults of the local assessments are helping national adaptation and mitigation planning to build more integrated responses. The usually forgo!en local voices are now gaining ground in national processes, to help plan future actions that will not infringe upon the rights and capacities of local and indigenous communities, but rather, will build more bioculturally aware national policies.

• Building Local-Global LinksResults of the local assessments show how holistic understanding can link local knowledge, livelihoods and practices in response to climate change with global concerns of climate justice. The voices of indigenous communities and their concerns are expressed through synthesis reporting across the local assessments, contributing to global indigenous demands.

Impacts

IPCCA Secretariat, Associación ANDES

Calle Ruinas 451 Cusco, PeruTel: +51-84-245021 Fax: +51-84-232603

Ipcca-secretariat@andes.org.pewww.andes.org.pewww.ipcca.info

The IPCCA is supported by:

We thank the Ford Foundation for its support

IPCCAIndigenous Peoples´ Biocultural Climate Change Assessment Initiative

IPCCAIndigenous Peoples´ Biocultural

Climate Change Assessment Initiative

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The Indigenous Peoples’ Biocultural Climate Change Assessment (IPCCA) initiative is a cooperative indigenous response to the climate crisis. Through a network of indigenous communities and organisations globally, the IPCCA is providing much needed local information about climatic conditions and trends, and building responses to the potentially devastating impacts on local livelihoods and the world’s most fragile ecosystems.

Since 2009, indigenous communities in a diversity of ecosystems across the world have been undertaking local assessments of their unique ecosystems by bridging traditional knowledge and cu!ing-edge science. Through developing evidence based local adaptation and mitigation strategies, their responses

are ensuring that the world’s biocultural diversity is protected, and the most vulnerable communities will be more resilient.

Our ObjectivesAs a global initiative, the IPCCA aims to empower indigenous peoples to assess the impacts of climate change on their communities and ecosystems. The objective of the local assessments is to develop and implement adaptation and mitigation responses and policy proposals at local, national and international levels to support resilience and climate justice.

Across the world, in a diversity of fragile ecosystems, such as the Sub-arctic tundra, Caribbean coast, Amazon and Asian rainforests, Southern Chinese and Andean mountains and African plains, IPCCA local assessments are taking a biocultural approach to understanding the relationships between communities, their livelihoods, ecosystems and climate. Results from the local assessments are synthesized into global reports to feed into climate change policy development.

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Local AssessmentsForest LivelihoodsEcuador, Panama, Thailand, Philippines, India

Livelihoods based on knowledge and practice, for maintaining resilient forest ecosystems.

Fishing and Animal Husbandry Livelihoods Pacific North West, Finland, Kenya

Based on management of culturally important animal and fish species, traditional knowledge and practice for managing rivers and land.

Agrobiodiversity LivelihoodsPeru, China, India

Livelihoods based on ancestral knowldge and practice of cultivating culturally important crops, often within their centres of origin, creating resilient agrobiodiverse landscapes.

Potato Park,CUSCO, PERUAssesing impacts on native potato diversity to build responses and strengthen resilience

Skolt Sámi, LaplandFINLANDBuilding adaptation and survival mechanisms based on reindeer herd-ing and salmon fishing practices

Karen Peoples, Huay ManaoTHAILANDAdapting to changes in farming cycles and rice crops through locally ap-propriate responses

Adivasi Peoples, Andra PradeshINDIABuilding resilience to climate change through traditional governance and territorial rights

Yunan province SW CHINAAnalysing the role of traditional knowledge of agrobiodiversity in climate change adaptation

Massai PeoplesKENYAAssessing the role of traditional knoweldge and institutions in addressing climate change for well being

Ifugao CordilleraPHILIPPINESAssessing changes in climatic conditions and trends and their impacts on ecosystems and culture

Comarca Kuna YalaPANAMAAdapting to rising sea level and analysing the impact of REDD+ on indigenous rights

Pacific North Western TribesUSA AND CANADABuilding an assessment of climate change impacts on the salmon peoples

Sápara Territory,AMAZONIA, ECUADORAssessing impacts of climate change on forest livelihoods and analysing impacts of REDD+ on indigenous rights

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