• Opening:
  • Mr. Carlos Fuller,Chair of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), co-moderator of the Dialogue
  • Ms. Grace Balawag, the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change(IIPFCC), co-moderator of the Dialogue
• Keynote statement: Ms. Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary, UNFCCC

Panel discussion: The session sets the scene on existing experiences with the involvement of local communities and indigenous peoples and with the use of traditional knowledge.

Panelists:

• Ms. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on Climate Change
• Mr. Douglas Nakashima, UNESCO
• Ms. Jyoti Mathur-Filipp, UNDP

Dialogue: Participants discuss and identify the possible functions/content of the LCIP.

Background: The Paris Agreement (decision 1/CP.21, para 135) lays out the overall purpose of the LCIP platform (i.e. recognizes the need to strengthen knowledge, technologies, practices and efforts of local communities and indigenous peoples related to addressing and responding to climate change, and establishes a platform for the exchange of experiences and sharing of best practices on mitigation and adaptation in a holistic and integrated manner).

The secretariat provides an overview of submissions, focusing on three clusters of functions that emerged from the analysis. Then participants address the following questions:

• Knowledge:
  • How to facilitate effective exchange of experiences and sharing of best practices, including through creating avenues, and with the use of safeguards, among and between Indigenous Peoples of the world, and also between Indigenous Peoples, Parties and other knowledge systems/stakeholders?
• Climate change policies and actions
  • How can the platform do this function to facilitate the integration of LCIP diverse knowledge systems, practices, innovations and experiences, and the engagement of LCIP, into relevant climate change related decisions and interventions, actions, programs and policies, subject to LCIP’s free, prior, and informed consent?
• Capacity for engagement
  • How to build capacities of LCIP to effectively engage in relevant UNFCCC and other climate-related processes on relevant issues, including supporting the implementation of the Paris Agreement?

Cross cutting: What are resource implications associated with the operationalization of the platform?

• Preview to day 2 and closing of day 1

• Dialogue: Participants will continue discussion on the functions/content of the platform

The secretariat provides an overview of the possible nature and structure of the platform that emerged from the analysis of submissions. Then participants address the following questions:

• What structure will allow a constructive interaction/interface between Parties and LCIP and take into account the specific way LCIP are organized in representative institutions?
• How can the structure evolve in a transparent manner, with experiences from the initial stages, to develop the platform?
• How can the secretariat best support the operationalization of the platform?

• Summary of discussions and closing (Mr. Carlos Fuller, Chair of the SBSTA)