Location: Strangford Lough, Zone C in the Scottish Event Campus

In Glasgow, the SBSTA will review the outcomes and activities of the Facilitative Working Group and make recommendations to the Conference of the Parties. In the context of that review, this side event will showcase milestones and achievements in the initial two-year workplan of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform. 

Between 2020-2021, the Facilitative Working Group has implemented the LCIPP initial two-year workplan. The side event at COP26 will highlight how activities of the workplan have facilitated exchange between Parties, and indigenous peoples and local communities about experiences with mitigation and adaptation. The FWG has also enhanced engagement of indigenous peoples and local communities with the work of other constituted bodies as well as with organizations outside the Convention. 

Objectives: 

Today, there is a need to support human societies to further recognize the full value of nature, including the essential services provided by ecosystems and biomes for social and economic well-being. The knowledge and positive values of indigenous peoples and local communities can contribute to social understanding of ways to regenerate and steward nature. Through work under the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform, Parties and stakeholders are enhancing climate action and ambition for long-term health and wellbeing of people as well as the planet. 

This side event at COP26 will: 

• Raise awareness about the functions of the LCIPP: knowledge, capacity for engagement, and climate change policies and actions; 
• Highlight achievements and good practices of the work done by the FWG under the initial two-year workplan, as well as the challenges faced, and the opportunities for future work to foster exchange of experiences on adaptation and mitigation;
• Allow Parties to interact with contributors about the work of the FWG.