Abstract:

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change have reinvigorated the international community’s commitments towards an inclusive and environmentally sustainable form of development. Indigenous and tribal peoples have an important role to play in realizing the ambitious goals of these global frameworks and meaningfully combatting climate change. Their traditional knowledge, which cuts across numerous aspects of sustainability and resilience – from forecasting weather patterns, improving agricultural practices, to customary institutions for improved management of natural resources – has increasingly gained recognition at the international level as a vital way forward.