Local Knowledge, Global Goals

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As the world changes increasingly rapidly, 'Local Knowledge, Global Goals' explores the ways that indigenous and local knowledge systems contribute to understanding, mitigating and adapting to climate change, environmental degradation and biodiversity loss.

The 'Local Knowledge, Global Goals' poster series and publication introduce important concepts and emerging issues relating to indigenous and local knowledge systems and their interactions with science and policy. Each poster presents a key concept or issue, and supplements it with case studies from around the world. The publication expands on the case studies, giving added detail and context. Together or separately, they are a resource that can be used by teachers, researchers or policy-makers wanting to explore or discuss concepts and best practice relating to indigenous and local knowledge systems in present day contexts. For more information, please contact links@unesco.org

View the posters below.

POSTERS

INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE TODAY

"Those who cannot name the good things of sea and land, cannot find them, and therefore cannot eat or otherwise benefit from them, nor will they know how to look after them well."

People of Marovo lagoon, Solomon Islands

"Ria pu kadi gura vakila ni tingitonga leadi pu ko pa idere oro pa goana, hara ngina kadi gura pita ni ria, heni ngina kadi gura ngoi tu ria ba vaei pule tingitonga leadi tadiria tingitonga pira, madi ngina kadi atei ni ria ia tinavete arilaena pata chakei valeana ni ria pa kalena saena pu maena."

Posters

Strong roots for the Sustainable Development Goals

Local and indigenous knowledge, A timeline

Revitalising knowledge across generations

Safeguarding

DIMENSIONS OF KNOWLEDGE

You talk to the country, talk to the [ancestral] Yolngu, so that he knows you. You talk to them: ‘Give us something! We are the generation after you! Brrrr!’

Yolgnu elder, Blue Mud Bay Northern Australia

Posters

words to worldviews

Gender & knowledge, Complementary ways of knowing

Dynamism of ‘traditional’ knowledge

Adaptive knowledge for variability and change

KNOWLEDGE FOR SUSTAINABILITY

Rain discriminates between two horns of an ox.

Afar proverb, Ethiopia

One year is not the brother of another year.

Sami Proverb Li leat jauni jack viella

Posters

Community-based assessments of global climate changes

Vulnerability and resilience in a world of change

Monitoring biodiversity loss

Co-managing species and spaces

INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND SCIENCE

We are humble people yet, at the same time, very proud… We conserve nature and continue to live surrounded by living beings, both plants and animals.

Mayangna people, Nicaragua

Muih as yayamni yangnadawi bik alas muihkina kat bik kulna lâni nuhni dûta yangna… Mayangna sulani kapat, dî apakyang yangna yaihkitna yakat dî sangnika dûwa balna.