Based on four consecutive international meetings of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the author describes her experiences negotiating with governments in her capacity as Co-Chair of the International Indigenous Peoples' Forum on Climate Change. She provides an insider view from an Indigenous perspective of the establishment of the Paris Agreement and the struggle to ensure its effective impementation, including official recognition of the importance of traditional knowledge for Indigenous resilience in the face of climate change.