Working Group on 8j Adopts Eight Recommendations
Tuesday, November 8th, 20114 November 2011: The Ad hoc Open-ended Inter-Sessional Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted eight recommendations and made progress on additional issues. It faced difficulties, however, addressing three key topics, and did not tackle the issue of revising the CBD terminology from “indigenous and local communities” (ILCs) to “indigenous peoples and local communities” and implications for the Convention’s work.
