Host Organisation

Elatia Training Institute

Outline

Indigenous Peoples are experiencing the growing impacts of climate change, including the loss and damage of their ancestral lands, territories, ecosystems, biodiversity, traditional knowledge, cultural heritage, spiritual sites, livelihoods, and social relationships. These impacts extend beyond economic losses and are often difficult to quantify or compensate for through conventional climate finance mechanisms. As Indigenous Peoples maintain deep cultural, spiritual, and livelihood connections with their territories, climate-related changes can threaten their identities, ways of life, intergenerational knowledge, and relationships with their ancestors and the natural world. Despite their significant contributions to ecosystem protection and climate resilience, Indigenous Peoples face heightened vulnerability due to historical marginalization, insecure land tenure, limited access to resources and decision-making processes, and inadequate recognition of their rights and knowledge systems. At the same time, Indigenous Peoples continue to draw on traditional knowledge, collective action, customary institutions, and Indigenous-led adaptation and recovery strategies to respond to climate impacts. This side event will provide a platform for Indigenous Peoples to share their lived experiences, examine the drivers of their vulnerability, highlight their responses to non-economic losses and damages, and articulate recommendations for more equitable, culturally appropriate, and rights-based approaches to addressing Loss and Damage under the UNFCCC.

Speakers

CHIRAPAQ, CADPI, Maleya Foundation, ILEPA, CIPRED, MPIDO, Tebtebba

Languages

EN SP