Indigenous Climate Hub

2020 Yukon First Nations Climate Action Gathering
2020-02-16 08:00 - 2020-02-18 17:00 (America/Whitehorse) | Yukon First Nations Climate Action Gathering, Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre, Whitehorse, YK, Canada
The 2020 Yukon First Nations Climate Action Gathering will support Yukon First Nations (YFN’s) leadership, citizens and partners in uniting around the challenge of climate change. The gathering will explore climate change solutions held in our ancestral teachings for resiliency, and self and collective reliance. The gathering will facilitate knowledge sharing, elevate the voices of our Youth, Elders and Traditional Knowledge Keepers and build climate action solidarity amongst YFN’s.

Biodiversity 2020: Working Together to Protect Spaces and Species in New Brunswick
2020-02-11 09:00 - 16:30 (America/Halifax) | Fredericton Inn, Fredericton Inn, Fredericton, NB, Canada
Biodiversity is a hot topic in New Brunswick these days! With the federal government’s commitment to protect 17% of Canada’s land area by 2020, and increasing that target to 30% by 2030, with the provincial government’s intention to double its protected and conserved land and freshwater from 4.6% to 10%, with Indigenous groups looking at Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs), and conservation groups working to protect spaces and species locally and regionally, there is a lot going on! What are the big projects going on in my area? What are the opportunities for my organization to get involved? How does all this conservation work fit into provincial and federal strategies and priorities? Join us on February 11 to learn more.

Registration fee: regular – $60; students and NGOs – $50; early bird discount before January 31 – $10

An Evening With François Paulette
2020-02-05 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Whitehorse) | MacBride Museum, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
Francois will be speaking about climate change from an Indigenous perspective and will be providing reflections on attending the United Nations COP25 in Madrid. François will be accompanied by Siku Alloloo, researcher, writer and artist who will be delivering opening remarks.

Nature-Based Climate Solutions Summit
2020-02-05 08:00 - 2020-02-06 17:00 (America/Toronto) | National Arts Centre, Ottawa, ON, Canada
We want the summit to increase our collective knowledge of nature-based climate solutions and help chart a path forward. Content of the summit will include plenary sessions and interactive workshops, panels, and roundtables on the topics of: nature-based climate change mitigation, ecosystem restoration & adaptation, natural infrastructure, protected areas, and Indigenous-led approaches to all of the above categories.

Energy Democracy and Energy Justice in Canada, New Zealand, and Global Climate Action
2020-02-03 14:30 - 16:30 (America/Toronto) | York University Keele Campus, 109 Atkinson (Harry Crowe Room), Toronto, Ontario, M3J1P3, Canada
In this talk, Dr. Julie MacArthur examines the promise of energy democracy in Aotearoa New Zealand, a country that already has a significant share of energy from renewable sources at 83%, but faces significant challenges in addressing issues of energy poverty and energy system transformation in distribution, storage and energy efficiency. New Zealand also provides a useful case for understanding the unique role that local energy democracy may play in contexts which lack or lose policy support, and those where postcolonial struggles for indigenous sovereignty feature prominently, like Canada.

Respecting the Land: Climate Change and First Peoples
2020-01-29 12:00 - 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Durham College, Oshawa, ON, Canada
The Indigenous Climate Action movement recognizes that Indigenous Peoples are on the front-lines of both climate impacts and efforts to protect the earth. Join Kim Wheatley, an Anishinaabe Ojibway Grandmother from Shawanaga First Nation Reserve, and DC Indigenous student advisor Julie Pigeon, who is also Ojibway and a member of the Batchewana First Nation, for an enriching discussion about our relationship to the Land and the ways in which climate change is impacting it.
