Abstract
Indigenous environmental knowledge (IEK) is an ever-evolving, dynamic knowledge base that, along with Western science, law and policy, is necessary for the global response to the climate change crisis. This dissertation discusses whether the international climate change regime makes adequate provision for the successful utilisation of IEK within the climate change response and, if not, asks why that is the case. It then discusses how the international regime has influenced Aotearoa New Zealand’s (A/NZ) domestic climate change law’s recognition of the value of Māori environmental knowledge (MEK).