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• 1 2024-08-16T15:15:41+00:00 Indigenous Knowledge: A Key to Climate Solutions 8 Indigenous knowledge offers valuable insights and solutions for climate change by drawing on deep understanding of local ecosystems and sustainable practices honed over generations. splash 2024-08-16T15:39:37+00:00 Indigenous peoples have an intimate understanding of their lands. They have developed, over centuries, systems of knowledge particularly well-adapted to establishing sustainable management of those environments. This traditional knowledge therefore comes to be recognized as a valuable resource in combating climate change.
  
  For example, controlled burning in Australia and North America is an indigenous practice applied by indigenous people. Low-intensity fires were managed so that undergrowth would be cleared and greater wildfires could not spread, allowing important plants to grow. In the face of more severe climate-driven wildfires, this traditional practice is gaining attention as a way to manage fire-prone landscapes.
  
  Indigenous populations in the Amazon rain­for­est have classically used agroforestry practices to mix trees and crops in a manner approximating the be­hav­ior of the natural forest. Such sys­tems al­low for maintenance of biodiversity and car­bon stor­age while also pro­duc­ing food and other products for local communities. For example, research has quan­ti­fied that in the Amazon managed by indigenous people, there is less deforestation and more biodiversity than in comparable territory managed by others.
  
  While indigenous knowledge has started to be recognized, much has to be done to see it fully integrated into global climate policies. The indigenous people must be put into the decision making levels, with their knowledge at par with scientific knowledge.