COP 29 welcomed the Baku Workplan of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP). The workplan is organized around six Collective Approaches (CA). In line with the workplan, a mandated deliverable under collective approach 5 is to develop a draft ethics protocol to ensure the ethical and equitable engagement, protection, and use of traditional knowledge, the knowledge of Indigenous Peoples, and local knowledge systems.

This draft ethics protocol will be created with the direct involvement of Indigenous Peoples and local communities, and used at the gatherings of knowledge holders, regional (or biregional) gatherings, and seventh-generation round tables. The draft needs to be developed before the 15th meeting of the Facilitative Working Group (FWG) of the LCIPP.