Indigenous initiatives to tackle climate impacts: Adaptation Plans and Indigenous Funds in the Amazon, Africa, Asia and the Pacific

Moderator:

• Patricia Zuppi, from São Paulo/Brazil: International Advisor to the Indigenous Council of Roraima – CIR, Former Deputy Executive Secretary of the Amazon Cooperation Network – RCA, where she was coordinator for about ten years of the work on indigenous protagonism in climate advocacy and strengthening indigenous women’s initiatives in the Amazon. (confirmed)

Panelists:

• Sineia Bezerra do Vale, Wapichana people of Roraima/Brazilian Amazon: Coordinator of the Department of Territorial, Environmental and Climate Change Management of the Indigenous Council of Roraima – CIR, National Coordinator of the Indigenous Committee on Climate Change – CIMC and Co-President of the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change – IIPFCC (confirmed)
• Hindou Oumarou Ibraim, Mbororo pastoralist people of Chad/Africa: President of the Association of Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad – AFPAT, President of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, co-chair of the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change – IIPFCC (will be invited)
• Pasang Dolma Sherpa, Sherpa people of Nepal: Executive Director of the Center for Indigenous Peoples’ Research and Development – CIPRED, Former Co-Chair of the International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on Climate Change (IIPFCC) and Former Co-Chair of the Facilitating Working Group (FWG) of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples’ Platform (LCIPP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – UNFCCC (will be invited)
• An indigenous Pacific Islander leader will be invited, to be defined by the current co-chair of the UNFCCC Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP) Facilitator Working Group for the UN indigenous socio-cultural region in the Pacific, Cathryn Eatock.