How to Include Community Based Monitoring and Traditional Knowledge into the SAON Process- a Proposal on Ways Forward

At a teleconference on June 16th 2009 of the SAON‐Steering Group (SG) an action plan for the next stage in the SAON process was discussed. It was determined that item 2.c of the action plan is important and work should be started to comsider how this could be implemented. Under ‘Stakeholder Consultations’, Item 2.c states:

“Bring together representatives of Arctic communities and Indigenous Peoples with members of the scientific community to discuss approaches to improve integration of local and indigenous knowledge with scientific knowledge and for increasing engagement of local and indigenous people in Arctic observing network.”