Tribal Climate Change Guide

The Tribal Climate Change Guide is part of the Pacific Northwest Tribal Climate Change Project (TCCP). The TCCP is part of the L.I.G.H.T. Foundation (LF), is an independent, Indigenous-led, conservation 501(c)(3) nonprofit established on the Colville Indian Reservation in the traditional territory of the Nespelem Tribe in present-day north central Washington State. LF supports the restoration and cultivation of native Plant and Pollinator Relatives and the culturally respectful conservation of habitats and ecosystems which are climate resilient and adaptive. For more information about LF, visit: https://thepnwlf.org/. For more information about the Tribal Climate Change Project, visit: https://tribalclimate.uoregon.edu/. If you would like to add information to this guide, please email kathy.lynn.or@gmail.com.

Protecting Cultural Rights in the South Pacific Islands: Using UNESCO and Marine Protected Areas to Plan for Climate Change

Type

Literature

Publication

Elizabeth Thomas, Protecting Cultural Rights in the South Pacific Islands: Using UNESCO and Marine Protected Areas to Plan for Climate Change, 29 Fordham Envtl. L. Rev. 413 (2018).
Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1802&context=elr

Year Published

2018

Organization

Fordham Environmental Law Review

Description

"Imagine an island coast filled with palm trees and mangrove forests, birds chirping as you look to the clear blue oceans and coral reefs that
span beyond where the eye can see. A perfect paradise, is it not? Imagine the native peoples of that island. Perhaps they believe that the
souls of every departed person spanning back to the beginning of time wander this very coast at night, while the living continue the tradition of worshipping ancient gods inhabiting the coral reefs surrounding the area. Now imagine that island as scientists predict it will be thirty to fifty years from now: the people gone and the island completely submerged beneath the seas."

Geography

South Pacific Islands

Website

https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1802&context=elr

The Tribal Climate Change Guide is supported through partnerships between the University of Oregon Environmental Studies Program and the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals and the Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 Tribal Program.
Questions about this Guide should be directed to kathy@uoregon.edu.