The global environmental change research community that engages with Indigenous knowledge holders commonly practice engagement in an extractive way: knowledge is treated as data that can be aggregated and understood in abstract and universal form. This assumes that knowledge and governance are separate and gives knowledge co-production the appearance of playing an informative and facilitative role in global environmental change governance. But seeking Indigenous knowledge to inform environmental decision-making implies that Indigenous peoples are stakeholders as opposed to self-determining nations with rights and responsibilities regarding their knowledge systems and lands. Indigenous sovereignty is not respected when knowledge is treated as mere data for collective decision-making. This paper brings literatures on knowledge co-production together with Indigenous knowledge, research, and environmental governance to explain why co-production scholars must move away from seeking to better ‘integrate’ Indigenous knowledges into western science and make way for Indigenous research leadership.

与土著知识持有者互动的全球环境变化研究社区通常以提取的方式进行互动：知识被视为可以以抽象和通用形式进行汇总和理解的数据。这假定知识和治理是分开的，并使知识共同生产看起来像在全球环境变化治理中发挥着信息性和促进性的作用。但是，寻求土著知识来为环境决策提供信息意味着，土著人民是利益相关者，而不是在知识体系和土地方面享有权利和责任的自决国家。当知识仅作为集体决策的数据时，土著主权就得不到尊重。