An
International Expert Group Meeting on Indigenous Peoples and
Climate Change convened in Darwin 2 - 4 April 2008. This meeting
was coordinated by the Secretariat of the United Nations Permanent
Forum on Indigenous Issues, United Nations University –
Institute for Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) and NAILSMA.
In addition
to this, an International Public Forum on Indigenous Peoples and
Climate Change: The Tropical Australian Experience was held in
conjunction at Charles Darwin University. Transcripts of
presentations of this meeting can be downloaded from the CDU events
page: www.cdu.edu.au/whatson.
Themes for
this forum included:
·
outlining the
effects of climate change on Indigenous peoples;
·
adaptation measures
to climate change;
·
carbon projects and
carbon trading; and
·
factors that enable
or obstruct Indigenous peoples’ participation in the climate
change processes.
For more
information about the outcomes of this meeting, please visit the
UNU-IAS web site: (www.ias.unu.edu).
