Gender, Indigenous Peoples and Poverty in Latin American NDCs

27 June 2019 | Paz Gonzalez and Yanina Nemirovsky

Indigenous perspectives are important to the design and implementation of climate policies and here’s why. Indigenous people contribute to the conservation of 80% of the world’s biodiversity – according to the United Nations. This is because they possess invaluable local knowledge which helps ecosystems and communities adapt to the impacts of climate change. However, they are among those most affected by climate change and have been historically excluded from current development paradigms.