*3.4. Indigenous Authors and Voice*

Various scholars increasingly agree that Indigenous voices deserve a more prominent role in the Conference of the Parties (COP) meetings, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, and academic studies [8,31]. Taiwan, which is internationally unrecognized by the vast majority of the world's nations, is perhaps not active in COP meetings, but numerous academic studies have been written by Indigenous scholars. At least 22.9% (14 studies) of domestic articles were either written or co-written by Indigenous authors. For international articles, this percentage was at least 12.0% (six studies in total). We identified Indigenous scholars by their names or their ethnicity being otherwise mentioned in the main text. These Indigenous scholars self-identified as Rukai, Paiwan, Puyuma, Tayal, Seediq, Tao, Sakizaya, Amis, and Tsou/Cou. They either wrote the articles as a single author or together with other Taiwanese, Indigenous, or foreign scholars. In terms of diversity among the Indigenous authors, nine groups are represented, meaning that seven groups (e.g., the Bunun) are not represented. In total, seven non-Taiwanese scholars contributed to studies on Taiwan's Indigenous peoples and climate change; two of these studies were co-written by Indigenous scholars. Given that Indigenous peoples only make up 2.4% of Taiwan's total population, Taiwan's Indigenous scholars can be concluded to have found a voice in academia, especially in articles published in domestic outlets (Appendix C). It is hoped that more domestic research can be translated into English for an international audience because many articles written by Indigenous scholars contain very detailed ethnographies on local TEK systems [47,54,55].
