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Climate Change Experts Are Taking Notes from Indigenous Knowledge | Honolulu Civil Beat

As the effects of climate change intensify, researchers and leaders in the Pacific say they’re increasingly looking to Indigenous knowledge to help face the growing crisis.

A climate-related training for a United Nations delegation this week at Chaminade University will largely focus on such Indigenous-based approaches, said university provost Lance Askildson.

It’s the first time in 20 years or so that this gathering — the U.N.’s annual training for its global hubs on sustainable development — is occurring in the Pacific Islands, Askildson said.

“We have as much to learn from both the Pacific Indigenous people and Indigenous peoples around the world as we have to share with them,” Askildson said Tuesday.