This regional conference on local and indigenous knowledge and climate change is organized by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). It aims to contribute to the mobilization of local and indigenous knowledge in the Caribbean by: providing a regional overview of the state-of-the-art of local and indigenous knowledge of the environment in the Caribbean, including tools and methodologies for working with local and indigenous knowledge; and understanding the key regional issues, experiences and good practices for promoting local and indigenous knowledge in climate change assessment and action.

dates: 27-29 September 2017
location: Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana
www: https://en.unesco.org/lik-climate-caribbean-conference