The FWG has provided the following guidance on the dedicated web portal:

Important information regarding rights safeguards and protocols for the LCIPP portal

1. The Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP), including through this web portal, “promote[s] the exchange of experience and best practices with a view to applying, strengthening, protecting and preserving traditional knowledge, knowledge of indigenous peoples and local knowledge systems, as well as technologies, practices and efforts of local communities and indigenous peoples related to addressing and responding to climate change, taking into account the free, prior and informed consent of the holders of such knowledge, innovations and practices” (decision 2/CP.23).

2. The LCIPP web portal is designed to make the work of the LCIPP widely accessible. It will provide parties, indigenous peoples and local communities with the opportunity to share and exchange relevant information.

3. It will share projects, programs, statements, event outcomes and good practices to promote ethical engagement with the knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities and avoid misuse of that knowledge, in accordance with the functions of the LCIPP. It is not intended to act as a repository of the knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities or post information that is protected or intended to remain internal.

4. Submissions from indigenous peoples or local community representatives will be posted only at the direct request of the indigenous peoples and local communities concerned.

5. The FWG requests that third parties provide confirmation of the free, prior and informed consent of the indigenous peoples concerned, or the expressed agreement of the relevant local communities.

6. The preamble of the Paris Agreement acknowledges that Parties should, when taking action to address climate change, respect, promote and consider their respective obligations on, inter alia, “human rights,… the rights of indigenous peoples, local communities…”. In this context, reference is made to paragraph 135 of decision 1/CP.21, which established the LCIPP; decision 2/CP.23, which decided the overall purposes and functions of the LCIPP; and decision 2/CP.24, which established the Facilitative Working Group of the LCIPP (FWG).

7. This web portal was developed in consultation with the FWG and its nominated representatives of indigenous peoples, taking into account the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, decision 1/CP.21, the Paris Agreement, and the other decisions listed above.