Indigenous Climate Change Adaptation Gatherings (ICCAG)
ICCAG 2019
Sharing the Stories of Our Ancestors and Our Lands
On March 18-19, 2019, 34 First Nation Climate Change leaders from across Canada came together to share highlights and updates on their community climate change adaptation projects. This year’s event focused on traditional and land based knowledge systems and their integral role in recording through oral tradition, the impacts of climate change on their traditional lands. The two-day gathering included informative presentations and open-innovation style workshops that provided a rich wealth of knowledge for participants to explore ways to enhance their project outcomes. The workshop modules encompassed diverse Indigenous values and themes generated by the participants similar and had a similar feel to ICCAG 2018 held in Gatineau, Quebec. The event provided many opportunities for participants to network with one another, share ideas, learn about other participant’s projects, and to have meaningful conversations regarding climate change adaptation. The above graphic image offers a glimpse of the event and provides a wonderful knowledge map of what was shared by participants.
ICCAG 2018
We Gathered. We Shared. We Learned.
On March 18-19, 2019, 34 First Nation Climate Change leaders from across Canada came together to share highlights and updates on their community climate change adaptation projects. This year’s event focused on traditional and land based knowledge systems and their integral role in recording through oral tradition, the impacts of climate change on their traditional lands. The two-day gathering included informative presentations and open-innovation style workshops that provided a rich wealth of knowledge for participants to explore ways to enhance their project outcomes. The workshop modules encompassed diverse Indigenous values and themes generated by the participants similar and had a similar feel to ICCAG 2018 held in Gatineau, Quebec. The event provided many opportunities for participants to network with one another, share ideas, learn about other participant’s projects, and to have meaningful conversations regarding climate change adaptation. The above graphic image offers a glimpse of the event and provides a wonderful knowledge map of what was shared by participants. Learn more about the ICCAG 2018.
