Environment and Climate Change National and International Directory

Indigenous Environmental and Climate Change – (Organizations and Associations)

Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER)

Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER) supports Indigenous people and communities to be leaders in positive environmental change using the ebst of Indigenous and Western knowledge to create a world that is in balance and supports all living things.

Indigenous Climate Action

Indigenous Climate Action (ICA) is an Indigenous-led organization guided by a diverse group of Indigenous knowledge keepers, water protectors and land defenders from communities and regions across the country.

Indigenous Leadership Initiative

Indigenous Leadership Initiative supports Indigenous Nation in honouring our responsibility to care for lands and waters. We are dedicated to strengthening Indigenous Nationhood and Indigenous leadership on the land.

Land Needs Guardians

Land Needs Guardians – Join the movement growing up from the land, from elders, youth, and a new crop of leaders. Add you voice to the call for Indigenous leadership on the land.

Raven

RAVEN – supporting the assertion of the inherent and constitutionally-protected rights of Indigenous Peoples is a powerful pathway towards reconciliation and environmental justice.

Canadian Conservation and Land Management

The Canadian Conservation and Land Management’s Indigenous-Led Conservation Hub was created to elevate the valuable conservation and stewardship work being done by Indigenous people across Canada, and to connect Indigenous communities to resources and information that support their work.

Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCA) Knowledge Basket

The IPCA Knowledge Basket, a digital space created to honour, celebrate, and catalyze Indigenous-led conservation pathways in Canada, including Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs).

Conservation Reconciliation: Conservation Through Reconciliation Partnership

The Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership (CRP) is an Indigenous-led network that brings together a diverse range of partners to advance Indigenous-led conservation, including Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs) and to transform the conservation sector in Canada.

Global Environmental and Climate Change – (Groups, Organizations, Networks and Associations)

Indigenous Environmental Network

Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) was established in 1990 within the United States, IEN was formed by grassroots Indigenous peoples and individuals to address environmental and economic justice issues.

SEED

SEED is Australia’s first Indigenous youth climate network. We are building a movement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people for climate justice with the Australian Youth Climate Coalition.

Environmental Defence

Environmental Defence is a leading Canadian environmental advocacy organization that works with government, industry and individuals to defend clean water, a safe climate and healthy communities.

United Nations: Indigenous Climate Change

Indigenous peoples and the role they may play in combating climate change are rarely considered in public discourses on climate change. The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, is well placed to support indigenous peoples in putting a “human face” on this issue.

Canadian Environmental and Climate Change – (Groups, Organizations, Networks and Associations)

 Canadian Environmental Network

Canadian Environmental Network (RCEN) facilitates cooperation and networking among non-profit, non-governmental environmental organizations across Canada and internationally.

 Conservation Through Reconciliation Partnerships

Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership‘s main message is one of hope. By supporting the Indigenous-led conservation movement, we aim to help bring about the bold, transformative change to heal the relationships between humans and our planet, including relationships amongst human and non-human beings.

 Climate Action Network

Climate Action Network is not just an environmental problem. It is a human problem that impacts and exacerbates the most critical issues of our time, from health, to economic inequality, to racial justice. The impacts of climate change are felt by all populations and species on earth. In order to find solutions that work, we must solve it together.

Ecology Action Network

Ecology Action Network is a member-based environmental charity in Nova Scotia. Since 1971, we’ve taken leadership on critical environmental issues from biodiversity protection to climate change to environmental justice.

 David Suzuki Foundation

David Suzuki Foundation founded in 1990, the David Suzuki Foundation is a national, bilingual non-profit organization headquartered in Vancouver, with offices in Toronto and Montreal.

 Jane Goodall Institute

Jane Goodall Institute uses community-centred conservation to mobilize action on the convergence of three crises: biodiversity loss, climate change, and environmental inequity in Canada and in “Chimpscape” regions of Africa.

 Food Secure Canada

Food Secure Canada is a pan-Canadian alliance of organizations and individuals working together to advance food security and food sovereignty through three interlocking goals: zero hunger, healthy and safe food, and sustainable food systems.

 Evergreen Foundation

Evergreen Foundation a place where the world can experience and learn sustainable practices that enable cities of the future.

 Nature Canada

Nature Canada is one of the oldest national nature conservation charities in Canada. For 80 years, Nature Canada has helped protect over 110 million acres of parks and wildlife areas in Canada and countless species.

 Nature Conservancy of Canada

Nature Conservancy of Canada is the country’s unifying force for nature, working to deliver large-scale, permanent land conservation. With nature we are building a thriving world.

 Sierra Club Canada Foundation

Sierra Club Canada Foundation empowers people to be leaders in protecting, restoring and enjoying healthy and safe ecosystems.

 Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society is Canada’s only charity dedicated to the protection of public land, freshwater and ocean with a strong national and regional presence across the country.