Next Monday, September 23, 2024, ACTO will hold the national workshop: Exchange Meeting on Traditional Knowledge of Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities Associated with Climate Change in the Suriname Amazon, at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Meeting Hall in Suriname’s capital, Paramaribo. This workshop will be held in person and is part of the activities of the project “Creation of the Amazon Regional Platform of Indigenous Peoples” implemented by ACTO with the support of the Euroclima Program through its implementing agencies AECID, GIZ and ECLAC.
The event will bring together leaders of indigenous peoples, special guests of the organizations, the Coordinator of Indigenous Affairs of SP/ACTO and the project team with the aim of promoting a dialogue, collecting perspectives from Indigenous Peoples and Afro-descendants tribals (PTI) on climate change that can contribute to the process of creating
the Amazon Regional Platform of Indigenous Peoples. The first part of the dialogue will be a round of presentations, which will contextualize the agenda of Indigenous Peoples related to climate change in the international sphere, and the regional challenges on the creation of the platform within the scope of ACTO.
In the second part, the participants will be divided into working groups where dialogues will be promoted, with an explanation of the guiding questions. In the first session, the challenges and opportunities for PTI in tackling climate change will be discussed. During the second session, the focus will be on the debate of the creation of an Amazon regional platform for the PTI. Finally, there will be a summary of the main points and the minutes of agreements will be signed.
The project “Creation of the Amazon Regional Platform of Indigenous Peoples” is an operationalization of the decisions of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which encourages parties and indigenous peoples to consider the Platform of Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples (LCIPP), implemented by the Paris Agreement (AdP), to advance the recognition of the value of the knowledge, technologies, practices, and efforts of local communities and indigenous peoples in addressing climate change and their roles at the local, national, and regional levels, with the aim of increasing their participation and inclusion in climate action.
