Indigenous Peoples and Climate Technologies

This guidance report seeks to present the various ways in which indigenous peoples draw on their knowledge to find solutions and technologies to combat climate change that can help societies at large cope with the impending changes. Rather than being a prescriptive step-by-step guide on how to integrate these considerations into the Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) process, this report aims to familiarize the reader with key concepts and to offer a better understanding of the importance of acknowledging the diversity of knowledge systems, as well as the role indigenous peoples’ technologies can play in this context. TNA stakeholders are recommended to read this guidance when drawing up their TNAs, and to identify and integrate relevant considerations on indigenous peoples and technologies into the process, while ensuring that their free, prior and informed consent is obtained and thereafter documented for future reference. In reading this report, some concepts may appear for which clarification and details are best provided in previous TNA guidance books.