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Day 2: Obligations

Panel:
The Role of Education in Building a Global Culture of Knowledge and Inquiry °µÍø½ûÇø Climate Change, Its Human Rights Impacts and Solutions

Saturday, December 3, 2022

Feature Story

A changed landscape and lost traditions: One Nepali woman’s search for Indigenous solutions to climate change

Pasang Dolma Sherpa, executive director of Center for Indigenous Peoples' Research and Development (CIPRED), has worked with Indigenous peoples, women and local communities for the recognition of the Indigenous peoples’ knowledge, cultural values and customary institutions that contributed to sustainable management of forest, ecosystem, biodiversity and climate resilience for more than a decade. Her work includes a focus on climate issues of Sherpas in the Himalaya, as well as global policy work on loss and damage.

Sherpa obtained her PhD at Kathmandu University in 2018 on climate change education and its interfaces with Indigenous knowledge. She has served multiple organizations, including:

• Co-chair of the International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on Climate Change (IIPFCC)
• Co-chair of the Facilitative Working Group (FWG) of Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples’ Platform (LCIP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
• Board member of UN-REDD, Participant Committee of FCPF, World Bank

Sherpa holds multiple roles while also representing different forums, networks and institutions nationally and internationally. Her current positions include:

• Member of the Facilitative Working Group of the LCIPP within UNFCCC
• Chair of the Specialist Group on Indigenous Peoples, Customary, and Environmental Laws and Human Rights (SPICEH) within CEESP-IUCN
• Visiting faculty member at Kathmandu University
• Steering committee member to the white papers led by IPCC, UNESCO and ECOMOS
• Advisor to the One Ocean Hub based in the UK
• Advisor to the CMA based in Canada