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For over 350 million indigenous peoples worldwide, climate change impacts are expected to be early and severe due to their location in high risk environments. This includes nomadic pastoralists living along desert margins, fishers in small and low-lying islands, farmers and pastoralists in high-altitude zones and hunters, herders and others.

To face these challenges, indigenous peoples are mobilizing their in-depth traditional knowledge of territories that have been the source of their livelihoods for generations. Indigenous and traditional knowledge operates at a much finer spatial and temporal scale than science, and includes understandings of how to cope with and adapt to environmental variability and trends. Indigenous knowledge thus makes an important contribution to climate change policy and action (SDG 13). Combining scientific and indigenous and traditional knowledge can create opportunities and improve decision making.

Learning objectives:

• Learners will be able to describe the value of indigenous and traditional knowledge and how it can be incorporated when tackling the planetary health crisis.

• Learners appraise indigenous and traditional knowledge complementary to science and critical for mitigative and adaptive measures.