This assessment report aims to meet this need by informing the people of the HKH, decision makers, practitioners, and the global community on the rapidly changing cryosphere in the HKH and its impacts on water, biodiversity, and societies, based on the latest science.

This report puts forward a set of principles and practices to inform how investors should think and what investors should do to engage Indigenous peoples and their knowledge in conservation and restoration of landscapes.

This publication offers a wide-ranging perspective on indigenous peoples’ rights to lands, territories and resources, analysing legislation and agreements at the national and international levels as well as customary law.

This publication highlights the stories and voices of mountain women, with a focus on rural areas and mountain tourism, and outlines a path forward to promote their empowerment and help them to realize their potential as agents of sustainable mountain development. It includes on-the-ground interviews with mountain women in eight countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Italy, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal and the United Republic of Tanzania) and the results of a global survey.

This compendium solely focused on traditional construction material, technologies and skills in different climatic zones. This initiative spreads across 11 states including a deep dive assessment of technologies available in Odisha and West Bengal the states which are most vulnerable to extreme weather events.

The review includes recommendations for various actors to support Indigenous Peoples in their self-determined economic development and towards the sustainable marketization of their products. The review also provides guidelines for Indigenous Peoples willing to engage in such initiatve. Those are applicable to different contexts on the ground, and include good practices, and measures to mitigate risks.

The report highlights the intensification of major drivers of food insecurity and malnutrition: conflict, climate extremes and economic shocks, combined with growing inequalities. The issue at stake is not whether adversities will continue to occur or not, but how we must take bolder action to build resilience against future shocks.

The present report examines the emerging concept of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and the IUCN Global Standard (IUCN, 2020a) when applied to social-ecological systems that include aquaculture production.

This study includes an overview of indigenous knowledge system indicators for climate forecasting and key recommendations on using climate-related indigenous knowledge services to support anticipatory action in Zimbabwe.

The values assessment provides guidelines, criteria, tools and a road map to navigate the ways in which values play out in decisions, as well as the role values and valuation can have in achieving more sustainable pathways. It should be noted that the assessment does not provide quantifications.