This dataset includes the data analysed in the manuscript "Indigenous Peoples and local communities unravel climate change impacts on biodiversity". It contains one R-file with the script used to analyse the data, and eight csv-files with the following information: 1) the list of documents reviewed and their bibliographic information; 2) geographical information of the case studies reported in the documents reviewed; 3) numerical codes associated to macro-regions; 4) characteristics of groups reporting climate change impacts in case studies; 5) numerical codes associated to livelihoods; 6) list of LICCI codes categorized across impact categories; 7) list of local indicators of climate change impacts on biodiversity reported by Indigenous Peoples and local communities described in the documents reviewed, and taxa reported as impacted; 8) ranking of taxonomic classes most frequently impacted by climate change according to IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and documents reviewed.