Indigenous Climate Hub

The Climate Ready Communities Series
2025-08-13 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Vancouver)
Webinar: Mapping Social Vulnerability for Climate Action Planning
As we see the rise of climate change impacts, extreme weather events such as urban heat islands are disproportionately experienced by communities living in socially vulnerable areas. Climate equity is the goal of recognizing and addressing unequal burdens of climate change, while ensuring that the benefits of climate protection efforts are equally shared1. Tools such as social vulnerability mapping are essential to recognizing and addressing these inequities to create effective climate adaptation strategies.

Join us for this presentation where we will explore how municipalities can use social vulnerability and equity mapping to inform climate action strategies that prioritize the needs of equity-deserving communities.
This session will review what social vulnerability means in the context of climate adaptation, learn about key equity indicators for assessing climate risk in communities and gain insights into how municipalities can use social vulnerability mapping for decision-making.
Various Dates | Online | Register

Carrying Power in a Good Way: Indigenous Leadership in Transmission Development
2025-09-08 10:00 - 11:00 (Asia/Shanghai)
Canada is currently undergoing an energy transformation driven by the urgent need to collectively address climate change across all sectors. Achieving net zero requires the clean power sector to grow significantly over the coming years. Indigenous leadership can and should be at the heart of this shift.

Indigenous nations are rightsholders to vast territories, and electrification efforts will only succeed through respectful partnerships that honour Indigenous jurisdiction and decision-making over these lands and resources. The road to a decarbonized future must include Indigenous consent, participation, governance, and opportunities for ownership in projects.
Join the Canadian Climate Institute and Indigenous Power Coalition on September 8th, 2025 from 1-2 p.m. ET/ 10-11 a.m. PT for a co-hosted webinar highlighting projects led by Indigenous nations that have played a leading role in electricity transmission development in Canada.
This conversation will be moderated by Frank Busch, President and CEO of Kelso Technologies and author of “Grey Eyes: Teaching of the Buffalo”, with introductions from Kwatuuma Cole Sayers, Executive Director of Clean Energy BC, and Maria Shallard, Director, Indigenous Research at the Canadian Climate Institute. Panelists include:

Margaret Kenequanash, CEO of Wataynikaneyap Power
Kahsennenhawke Sky-Deer, CEO and President of Sky-Deer Consulting, Co-Chair of Northeast Grid Planning Forum, and Vice President at Dable Advisory and Consulting Services
Blaise Fontaine, Director of Engagement, Co-Founder, ProACTIVE Planning Inc., Indigenous Engagement Lead, Co-Founder, Indigenous Power Coalition

Join us to learn how to inform future policies supporting other Indigenous led-developments.

Sep 8, 2025 | Online | Register
Organized by The Canadian Climate Institute

Training: Expanded Professional Certificate in Asset Management Planning
2025-09-15 00:00 - 23:59 UTC
ClimateWest has partnered with NAMS Canada to offer subsidized asset management training opportunities.
Register for Expanded Professional Certificate in Asset Management Planning to strengthen your asset management expertise while integrating climate resilience, equity, and green infrastructure into your asset management plan.
During the course, participants will prepare a draft asset management plan using their own data, gaining practical experience and earning a professional certificate in asset management planning.
Starts September 15, 2025 | Online | Learn More

Event and Webinar : Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change Insights on Environmental Protection and Restoration
2025-11-14 10:30 - 11:45 (America/New_York) | Concordia University, Pavillon J.‐W.‐McConnell 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, QC, H3G 1M8, Canada
Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change: Insights on Environmental Protection and Restoration Led by the Kanien’kehá:ka Community of Kahnawá:ke
Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change is a series of separate workshops featuring speakers who share their insights on Indigenous environmental leadership, community action, and land-based learning.
The Kahnawà:ke Environment Protection Office has been studying and protecting the environment since the 1980s. In 2020, the Recreation Bay Restoration Project was initiated—the largest landscape project ever undertaken by the Mohawk Community. Now, in 2025, the North Creek Restoration Project is currently underway. This presentation combines community history, environmental expertise, and the on-the-ground experience that informs environmental restoration in an Indigenous community. Upcoming work and future visions will also be highlighted.
Speaker: Cole Teionieh’táthe Delisle works as an Environmental Projects Coordinator for Terrestrial Habitats with a wide range of projects. He coordinates KEPO’s seed saving activities, EAB project, species at risk, bird program, and drone work. A graduate from Concordia University’s Anthropology program, he is interested in archeology and the community’s history. Outside of terrestrial work, he also leads Kahnawà:ke’s participation in Transport Canada’s Enhanced Maritime Situational Awareness Program monitoring the impacts of industrial shipping.
Audience: Concordia community and external

November 14th 2025 | In-person and Online | Register
Organized by Office of Decolonizing and Indigenizing Curriculum and Pedagogy
This event has been generously funded by the Chamandy Foundation.

Webinar : Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change: A workshop with Diane Obed
2025-11-21 10:00 - 23:15 (America/New_York)
Webinar : Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change: A workshop with Diane Obed on “Feeling the Cries of Mother Earth: Climate, Relationality, and the Emotional Body”
Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change is a series of separate workshops featuring speakers who share their insights on Indigenous environmental leadership, community action, and land-based learning.
The Indigenous Climate Hub explains that: “Climate change is not only a physical or scientific crisis but also a spiritual and emotional one.” Dominant Western paradigms, often frames climate change through rational lenses, as a stressor on the individual psyche, a source of anxiety, grief, and fear to be managed through self-care, or therapeutic resilience. But according to Vanessa Andreotti and the Gesturing Toward Decolonial Futures Collective (2021, 2025), this framing assumes separability: that our minds and hearts are disconnected faculties, and that climate anxiety is something happening to us, rather than through us as Earth-feeling beings.
In this workshop, Inuk climate emotion researcher, Diane Obed, invites participants into a space of inquiry that honors Indigenous paradigms of relationality, where emotions are not pathologies to fix, but relational feedback mechanisms from the lands, waters, skies, kinfolk, we are entangled with.
Together, we’ll explore:

What shifts when we treat climate grief and fear not as dysfunction, but as relational intelligence?
How Indigenous land-based worldviews metabolize emotion through kinship, ceremony, and responsibility.
Expect reflection, dialogue, and gentle embodied practices, not as solutions, but as invitations to listen differently to what moves through us when the land speaks.

Speaker: Diane Obed is an Inuk woman mixed with English ancestry, originally from Hopedale, Nunatsiavut, Labrador. She currently lives in Nalikitquniejk– “place of torn branches” in Mi’kma’ki, in the territory of Peace and Friendship Treaties, also known as Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
Diane is currently studying in the Inter-University Educational Foundations PhD program at Mount Saint Vincent University. Her doctoral research project explores the intersections between Indigenous land education and contemplative studies to draw on ancient wisdom for modern day psycho-social issues such as cultivating courage to be able to face and engage in dialogue about the current climate crisis.
Audience: Concordia community and external

November 21st 2025 | Online | Register
Organized by Office of Decolonizing and Indigenizing Curriculum and Pedagogy
This event has been generously funded by the Chamandy Foundation.

First Nations Investment Forum 2025
2025-12-08 09:00 - 2025-12-10 16:30 (Asia/Shanghai) | Private: JW Marriott Parq Vancouver, 39 Smithe Street, Vancouver, BC, V6B 0R3, Canada
Join us in Vancouver for the inaugural First Nations Investment Forum (FNIF)—the first national conference led and organized by First Nations to accelerate Indigenous investment, ownership, and economic sovereignty.
As Canada enters a new era of economic reconciliation, FNIF 2025 will serve as a vital national platform to connect Indigenous Nations and major projects with capital, legal expertise, government, and industry partners—advancing infrastructure, energy, natural resources, and clean growth initiatives through Nation-to-Nation collaboration and values-driven investment.
This landmark gathering will bring together Indigenous governments, economic development corporations, high-growth project proponents, institutional investors, and policymakers to build the partnerships and policy momentum that will shape Canada’s financial future.
Why Attend FNIF 2025?
Be part of a national turning point in Indigenous-led investment and economic development.

Discover Canada’s next major projects first.Gain early access to high-growth, investment-ready opportunities in energy, infrastructure, real estate, clean tech, and critical minerals—with a focus on Indigenous partners and built for the future.
Build lasting relationships.Connect directly with Indigenous governments, economic development corporations, institutional investors, and government leaders—all in one place.
Learn from the leaders.Hear from federal, provincial, and First Nation leadership in high-impact keynotes and panel presentations—designed by Nations, industry, and government.
Explore emerging capital pathways

Gain insight into how recent federal and provincial policy developments are shaping new models for Indigenous equity participation, project financing, and Nation-to-Nation economic collaboration.

Forum Highlights
✔ Indigenous-led project pitch sessions and capital matchmaking✔ Keynotes and panels from Indigenous, Government, and Industry leadership✔ Real-time relationship-building between Nations and project partners

Key Themes

The role of Indigenous leadership in shaping Canada’s economic future
Building Nation-to-Nation partnerships in investment, infrastructure, and energy
Advancing reconciliation through economic empowerment and equity participation
Unlocking responsible, long-term growth with communities at the centre

December 8 -10 | Online | Register
Organized by First Nations Investment Forum

A workshop with Waba Moko on moose protection & Anishnabe governance
2026-01-30 11:00 - 12:15 (America/Toronto) | Concordia University, Pavillon J.‐W.‐McConnell 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, QC, H3G 1M8, Canada
Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change is a series separate workshops featuring speakers who share their insights on Indigenous environmental leadership, community action, and land-based learning.

Join us as Anishnabe Knowledge Keeper Shannon Chief/Waba Mako discusses various contributions to the decolonization and restoration of her people’s sovereignty, including the defense and protection of land, waters, and language and the community-driven Anishnabe Moose Studies project.
Speaker
Shannon Chief/Waba Mako is Wolf Clan from the Anishnabe-Algonquin Nation. She contributes at various levels to the decolonization and the restoration of her people’s sovereignty. The defense and protection of land, waters and language is a priority for the Anishnabeg. Waba is a Knowledge Keeper who prioritizes knowledge & language sharing to Anishnabe communities. Waba is the former AMC coordinator for the Anishnabe Moose Studies which has always been community-driven project from 2022 to 2025. Today, Waba is the Interium Managing Director for Tinakiwin, a newly non profit organization established to continue on the advocacy work within the Algonquin Territory.
This event has been generously funded by the Chamandy Foundation.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Audience: Concordia community and external

Date: Friday, January 30, 2026 at 11 AM – 12:15 PM EST
Location: In person at SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation (1400 Blvd. De Maisonneuve Ouest LB 145, Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal) or online via Zoom — open to all!

Mitigating the impacts of climate change: Cultivating learning pathways for Indigenous self-sustainability
2026-02-06 10:45 - 11:45 (America/Toronto) | Concordia University, Pavillon J.‐W.‐McConnell 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, QC, H3G 1M8, Canada
Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change is a series separate workshops featuring speakers who share their insights on Indigenous environmental leadership, community action, and land-based learning.
In the face of global climate change, Mohawk educator and pedagogical consultant Kanerahtiio Hemlock asks, “How do small communities respond and adapt?” Acknowledging that there is no one right answer, Kanerahtiio explains that for traditional Native people, the path is clear: “We have to return to our own ways.” In this workshop, Kanerahtiio speaks to what he has learned while developing a class on Indigenous self-sustainability, and how exploring the ways his people taught their children in the past—and what that teaching might look like today—has guided this educational work.
Speaker
Kanerahtiio Hemlock, a Mohawk from Kahnawake, has taught native history for the past thirteen years at the First Nations Regional Adult Education Center. During that time, he had developed a course on Indigenous self-sustainability that won the 2018 Ken Spencer national award for innovation in teaching. Since 2023 he has also worked part time at Dawson College as the Indigenous Pedagogical Consultant.
This event has been generously funded by the Chamandy Foundation.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Audience: Concordia community and external

Date: Friday, February 6, 2026 at 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM EST
Location: In person at SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation (1400 Blvd. De Maisonneuve Ouest LB 145, Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal) or online via Zoom — open to all!
Details and registration here: Register

Webinar : Indigenous Climate Monitoring Toolkit Webinar Series
2026-02-26 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Toronto)
The Indigenous Community-Based Climate Monitoring (ICBCM) Program, in partnership with Bridge Building Group (BBG), is hosting a webinar series that brings together community-based climate and environmental monitoring practitioners to share knowledge, learn from each other, and strengthen networks across regions.
Join them at 2:00 PM EST on Thursday, February 26, 2026, for a session featuring the Red River Métis Community-Based Climate Monitoring Program. Together, they’ll explore what the project set out to do, what’s working well, challenges and lessons learned, and practical insights that may support other communities doing similar work. A Q&A period will follow.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/6317689424603/WN_eGX6dUr-TzqeSIQURo6rFQ

Date: Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 2:00pm EST
Location: Zoom Webinar
Details and registration here: Register
