Since AR5, there has also been increasing recognition of the contribution of diverse knowledges including local and Indigenous knowledge in contributing to the development and interpretation of urban relevant climate change data and policy for effective action . Indigenous and local knowledge inform coping strategies in urban adaptation planning and new directions for action . Indigenous and local knowledge is also found to shape perceptions about urban climate risk awareness, its acceptable limits, causation and preferences for adaptation . Local perceptions about climate change in turn influence adaptation behaviours in settlements and urban communities . Engagement with Indigenous and local knowledge is an enabling condition for planning community-appropriate climate adaptation responses . Urban decision making that includes Indigenous and local knowledge has co-benefits for addressing indigenous dispossession, historical inequities and marginalisation of indigenous values that occurred . Indigenous and local knowledge can help deliver culturally appropriate strategies and local choices for urban risk management through, for example community-based observation networks , integrating ecosystem-based adaptation strategies in institutional structures , using multiple evidence-based approaches , and adopting forms of governance that centre Indigenous peoples in urban adaptation and decision making .
IPCC
Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
IPCC Report