Sharjah24 - WAM: Expo City Dubai teems with a significant presence of "Indigenous Peoples" during the convening of the Conference of the Parties (COP28). This prominent international gathering provided them with an optimal opportunity to actively engage, highlighting their crucial role in climate solutions.
At COP28, Indigenous Peoples demonstrate their respect for their cultural heritage, customs, and traditions in distinctive and unusual costumes. They also successfully raised awareness of climate change's effects on their societies, while highlighting the need for concerted global efforts to confront this challenge.
Ahead of COP28, the Presidency of the Conference unveiled several new measures aimed at enhancing the participation of indigenous peoples and underscored the significance of climate solutions led by indigenous communities throughout the conference.
To make it easier for indigenous elders to attend the conference, accommodation was provided for 150 participants from indigenous organisations along with translation services were provided for them for the first time in the history of the COPs, and funding was provided to ease their participation and for the preparation of a report on the economic opportunities of empowering indigenous peoples and local communities to access direct financing for climate change.
Indigenous peoples constitute one of the nine groups that have observer status within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and thereby exercise an influential role in global climate efforts.
According to international statistics, there are 476 million indigenous people around the world and spread across more than 90 countries. They belong to more than 5,000 different Indigenous peoples and speak more than 4,000 languages.
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