ABSTRACT
There exists a hegemony of (western) scientific knowledge that, to date, has determined how policy decisions are made for the rest of the world. This perpetuates the dominant neoliberal agenda. The world can be more pluralistic if we understood that knowledge is a situated event, shaped and determined by its immediate biophysical and cultural context. This chapter is a reflection of the ways anthropology argues for the inclusion of vernacular ways of knowing in climate change research, assessments, and policy. In many ways akin to how anthropologists first found themselves encountering climate change in their field sites, the increased appreciation of the critical place of knowledge systems has also gone from field encounters to policy applications, including IPBES, IPCC, and others. This chapter illustrates these changes via my ethnographic fieldwork and engagement with IPCC and anthropological movements writ large.
