Indigenous Peoples have been faced with adaptation challenges for centuries and have developed coping strategies in changing environments . Along with other local groups, they hold relevant knowledge about the environment and environmental change, the impact of those changes on ecosystems and livelihoods, and possible effective adaptive responses . Therefore, the participation of Indigenous Peoples in climate change decisions and the inclusion of Indigenous knowledge in the IPCC assessment process should be of high priority . Furthermore, the participation of scientifically trained climate specialists with indigenous backgrounds is valuable to the work of IPCC because the assessment must reflect a diverse range of views and expertise . Article 31 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples  supports the inclusion of IK and LK in the IPCC assessment process, calling for the use of IK and LK to be protected and validated by Indigenous Peoples themselves and their inclusion as active participants in the assessment . Paying special attention to the mechanism whereby some forms of knowledge have been excluded in previous reports-such as the use of technical knowledge or acronyms, or the deployment of discipline-specific validation mechanism-is a first step
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