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.

Rising Voices: Collaborative Voices for Climate Solutions

Type

Literature

Publication

Rising Voices: Collaborative Science for Climate Solutions. 2015. Recommendations to the UNFCCC 21st Conference of Parties.

Year Published

2015

Organization

Rising Voices, NGO

Description

This document presents a series of recommendations for managing the impacts of our planet's changing climate on Indigenous communities. On behalf of the Rising Voices community, the authors are providing a list of recommendations to those gathered at the UNFCCC 21st Conference of Parties and for dissemination around the world for communities, organizations, agencies, and governments to consider as focused examples of governmental actions as they pursue and implement urgent climate adaptation.

Geography

National

Website

http://risingvoices.ucar.edu/sites/default/files/Rising%20Voices%20Recommendati…

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.