Working group: Climate change and Indigenous Knowledge

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Mission

The working group aims at establishing a platform for exchange of knowledge, skills and ideas in promoting the visibility, recognition and utilisation of indigenous climate change knowledge by the climate change community (researchers, policy makers and practitioners).Current understanding of climate change impacts is largely generalised and coarse-grained and falls short of detecting impacts on local social-ecological systems. Yet, local communities have invaluable insights to strengthen knowledge of climate change and to validate evidence given by climate models. Therefore, the programme goal is to bring insights from local observations of climate change impacts into mainstream climate science and promote the recognition of indigenous knowledge in university climate change education.

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