Location: Meeting Room 4, Zone F, Scottish Events Center (SEC)

Indigenous peoples and local communities have the knowledge and values amassed through generations of close contact with nature. Parties can reorient the way societies interact with nature and stabilize the global climate systems, through collaboration with indigenous peoples and local communities. The Facilitative Working Group (FWG) of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP) is mandated to hold a multi-stakeholder in-session workshop at COP 26 to enhancing synergy and interaction with climate change related bodies and processes under and outside of the Convention.  

This workshop falls under the LCIPP function of “climate change policies and actions”. Under this function, the platform facilitates the integration of diverse knowledge systems, practices and innovations in designing and implementing international and national actions, programmes and policies in a manner that respects and promotes the rights and interests of local communities and indigenous peoples. The platform also facilitates the undertaking of stronger and more ambitious climate action by indigenous peoples and local communities that could contribute to the achievement of the nationally determined contributions of the Parties concerned (decision 2/CP.23). 

Objectives: 

• To create an open and interactive space and bring together relevant bodies and processes under and outside of the Convention to foster synergy in their shared effort to address climate change;   

• To exchange experience and good practices for the participation of indigenous peoples and local communities related to climate change, and share existing practices as mapped under technical papers produced as part of the LCIPP initial two-year workplan;  

• To strengthen the engagement of indigenous peoples and local communities in designing and implementing climate change policies and actions at all levels, utilizing the insights and synergies generated during the workshop.