Decision 1/CP.21 established a local communities and indigenous peoples platform
for the exchange of experience and sharing of best practices on mitigation and adaptation in
a holistic and integrated manner. This report provides an overview of proposals on the
purpose, content and structure of the platform from submissions and a two-day multistakeholder
dialogue that was held during the forty-sixth session of the Subsidiary Body for
Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA). The submissions and the dialogue
acknowledged that the platform should have three main interlinked functions:
(1) knowledge: the platform should provide a space for validating, documenting and sharing
experience and best practices, respecting the unique nature of and need to safeguard
indigenous and local community knowledge systems; (2) climate change policies and
actions: the platform should facilitate the integration of indigenous and local knowledge
systems as well as the engagement of indigenous peoples and local communities in relevant
climate change related actions, programmes and policies; and (3) capacity for engagement:
the platform should help to build the capacities of indigenous peoples and local communities
to help enable their engagement in and support the UNFCCC process, including the
implementation of the Paris Agreement, and other climate-related processes. The report
concludes with a summary on and next steps for the operationalization of the platform for
consideration at SBSTA 47.