This course on Climate Changes Impacts and Indigenous People and Local communities (IPLC) is divided in five different sections: 1) the first week aims to present the key notions related to climate change, and to Indigenous peoples and local communities knowledge systems. 2) the second week will show the different climate changes impacts on IPLC, at the climatic, biological, physical and human systems level. 3) the third week presents examples of coping and adaptation strategies of IPLC to climate change impacts 4) in the fourth week, different methods for data collection on local perceptions of climate change will be presented 5) the fifth week aims to give an overview on the governance in global change and the role of IPLC. Overall, this course includes a theoretical and a methodological component, through which you will learn methodologies to conduct research on Indigenous Peoples and local communities’ perceptions of climate change impacts.