WORKING GROUP RECOMMENDATIONS:

The strategies and recommendations seek to achieve the following objectives and activities:

1. Develop seasonal and regular summits (webcast and archived) where all participating indigenous peoples will:

• Consolidate, exchange, share and draw lessons from the views and experiences of other indigenous peoples around the world of the impacts and effects of climate change on lifestyles and their natural environment, including responses and adaptation tactics;
• Raise the visibility, participation and role of indigenous peoples in local, national, regional and international processes in formulating strategies and partnerships that engage local communities and other stakeholders to respond to the impacts of climate change;
• Analyze, discuss and promote public awareness of the impacts and consequences of programs and proposals for climate change mitigation and adaptation, and assess proposed solutions;
• Advocate effective response strategies taking into account the perspectives of the cultures, worldviews, and traditional knowledge as well as local, national, regional and international rights-based approaches;
• Engage these groups in the development of a science, research and implementation infrastructure.

2. Seek a Post Kyoto-2012 process that addresses the following:

• International cooperation to support urgent action on adaptation;
• Specific means to address loss and damage associated with climate change impacts in vulnerable indigenous communities;
• Enhanced action on technology transfer and development for adaptation;
• Risk sharing and transfer mechanisms such as insurance;
• Innovative funding approaches to assist particularly vulnerable developing countries in meeting the costs of adaptation;
• Investment in research and monitoring programs through various local initiatives and observational networks.

3. Facilitate indigenous participation in and input to key international processes and work programs related to the Convention on Biological Diversity, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol and others by:

• Developing specific case studies on local coping strategies and mechanisms for inclusion in the UNFCCC database created under the Nairobi Work Program on Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change;
• Calling upon the IPCC to develop a future assessment on climate change and indigenous peoples and the important role of traditional knowledge in forming policy decisions;
• Working with the research community, local indigenous communities, governments, relevant organizations, United Nations Environment Program, the World Bank and international NGOs to encourage appropriate climate change decision-making.
• Developing domestic and international indigenous community communication and education strategies on the impacts, adaptive capacity and mitigation methods appropriate to specific regions.

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Following the Reindeer: Nomadic Schools in Siberia   FollowingtheReindeer_eng.pdf

Crucial Role of the Indigenous  Crucial Role of Indigenous.doc

Russian Federation Recommendations (in Russian)  Russian Federation recommendations.pdf