The majority of Steering Committee members of the IPCCA are CEESP members. The main objective of the IPCCA is to empower indigenous peoples to develop and use indigenous frameworks to assess the impact of climate change on their communities and ecosystems and to develop and implement strategies for building indigenous resilience and adaptive strategies to mitigate impacts while enhancing biocultural diversity for food sovereignty and self determined development or “Buen Vivir.”  Tero Mustonen of Snowchange Cooperative in Finland has written recently about the relevance of hte IPCCA initiative to the Arctic Indigenous Climate Change work.

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