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Indigenous peoples are the real climate experts. So why aren't we listening to them?

Indigenous peoples are the real climate experts. So why aren't we listening to them?

By Gina Cosentino, Social Development Specialist, World Bank and Climate Investment Funds

Everything old is new again, at least when it comes to searching for workable and proven solutions to addressing climate change. Indigenous peoples have developed, over time, innovative climate-smart practices rooted in traditional knowledge and their relationship with nature.

Indigenous land rights: A cheap and effective climate change solution, just in time

Indigenous land rights: A cheap and effective climate change solution, just in time

By David Kaimowitz, Director, Natural Resources and Climate Change, the Ford Foundation

For forests, a change in attitude in favor of indigenous communities

For forests, a change in attitude in favor of indigenous communities

By Myrna Kay Cunningham Kain

Global climate-change policy must recognize indigenous rights

Indigenous peoples and local communities have been the chief casualties of climate change. Any meaningful legislation born out of the Paris Climate Summit must consider their plight. (Reuters/Joe Penney)

Global climate-change policy must recognize indigenous rights

By Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Co-Chair, International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change