Resources for Tribes: Funding, Networks, and Training & Planning Support

ATNI Tribal Leaders Summit on Climate Change March 10, 2015 Sue Wotkyns Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals Northern Arizona University http://www4.nau.edu/itep/ Kathy Lynn Pacific Northwest Tribal Climate Change Project Environmental Studies Program University of Oregon http://tribalclimate.uoregon.edu/ 1

Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP) Resources

Training: Climate Change Adaptation Planning • Introduction to planning for climate change impacts • Over a dozen offerings since 2010 • Upcoming: • April 28-30, Pocatello, ID • June 16-18, Bishop, CA Webinars 2

ITEP Resources

Tribes & Climate Change website http://www4.nau.edu/tribalclimatechange/index.asp

Tribal profiles (case studies) Tribal Climate Change Adaptation Planning Toolkit • Templates, worksheet, spreadsheet, checklist Fact sheets • climate change impacts and adaptation 3

ITEP Resources

Tribes & Climate Change Newsletter • News stories, technical resources, upcoming events, funding opportunities,… • Send request to [email protected]

Resource lists • Guides and tools for adaptation planning • Tribal climate change assessments and plans 4

Other Trainings and Webinars

National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) • Climate-Smart Conservation • http://training.fws.gov/ Online training • NCTC - Intro to Communicating Climate Change (self-paced) • Coursera Webinars —there are many available See ITEP ’ s Climate Change Events calendar and newsletter http://www4.nau.edu/tribalclimatechange/events.asp

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Adaptation Planning Frameworks

US Climate Resilience Toolkit http://toolkit.climate.gov/ Preparing for Climate Change http://cses.washington.edu/cig/ fpt/guidebook.shtml

Being Prepared for Climate Change: A Workbook for Developing Risk-Based Adaptation Plans http://www2.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2014 09/documents/being_prepared_workbook_508.pdf

Climate Change Handbook for Regional Water Planning http://www.water.ca.gov/climatechange/CCHandbook.cfm

Source: Moser and Ekstrom (2010) 6

Other Resources

CAKE (Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange) • http://www.cakex.org/ Georgetown Climate Center Adaptation Clearinghouse • http://www.georgetownclimate.org/adaptation/clearinghouse Federal and EPA Adaptation Programs • http://epa.gov/climatechange/impacts-adaptation/fed-programs.html

Upcoming event: National Adaptation Forum • May 12-14, St. Louis, MO • http://www.nationaladaptationforum.org/ 7

PNW Tribal Climate Change Project

Collaborative partnership - UO Environmental Studies Program and USDA Forest Service PNW Research Station: • Understand the impacts of climate change on tribal culture and sovereignty • • Foster opportunities for tribes to engage in regional and national climate initiatives.

Facilitate the PNW Tribal Climate Change Network • Resources • Tribal Climate Change Profiles • • Nooksack Indian Tribe: Rivers and Glaciers Jamestown S’Klallam Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Plan • • Research and Policy Publications Tribal Climate Change Funding Guide 8

Regional Climate Assessments & Research

• National Climate Assessment • Northwest Chapter: http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/regions/northwest • Tribal Chapter: peoples http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/sectors/indigenous • Northwest Climate Assessment: • http://occri.net/reports • Washington Center on Ocean Acidification • http://coenv.washington.edu/research/major-initiatives/ocean-acidification/ • NorWest Stream Temp: Regional Database and Modeled Stream Temperature • http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/boise/AWAE/projects/NorWeST.html

• Scenarios Network for Alaska and Arctic Planning • https://www.snap.uaf.edu/ 9

Additional Regional Climate Science Resources

• USDA Climate Hub – PNW Region • NW Climate Science Center • Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCC) • • • North Pacific LCC Great Northern LCC Great Basin LCC • USDA Forest Service PNW Research Station – Climate Change • Climate Impacts Research Consortium • • Oregon Climate Change Research Institute UW Climate Impacts Group 10 Photo by: Benjamin Drummond Facing Climate Change

Funding Resources

• PNW Tribal Climate Change Funding Database • http://envs.uoregon.edu/tribal-climate • ITEP TCC website funding page • http://www4.nau.edu/tribalclimatechange/resources/res_fundin g.asp

11 Photo by: Benjamin Drummond Facing Climate Change

Tribal Climate Change Guide to Funding, Program and Adaptation Plans

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Current Funding Opportunities

Tribal Cooperative Landscape Conservation Program

Adaptation Funding to Help Strengthen Resilience for Communities •

Climate Adaptation Planning ($4 million)

• Category 1. Trainings and Workshops • Category 2. Climate Adaptation Planning • Category 3. Travel (climate) •

Ocean and Coastal Management Planning ($4 million)

• Category 4. Ocean and Coastal Management Planning • Category 5. Travel •

Proposals are due by April 24, 2015

More information: http://www.indianaffairs.gov/WhoWeAre/BIA/OTS/NaturalResources/climatecha 13 nge/index.htm

Tribal Climate Change Principles: Responding to Federal Policies Programs

Working Set of Principles Intended to:

• Strengthen Tribal Sovereignty in a Climate Change Era • Support Tribes Facing Immediate Threats from Climate Change • Ensure Tribal Access to Climate Change Resources 14

Guidelines for Considering Traditional Knowledges in Climate Change Initiatives

http://climatetkw.wordpress.com

• An informational resource for tribes, agencies, and organizations across the United States interested in understanding traditional knowledges in the context of climate change.

• A framework to increase understanding of issues relating to access and protection of traditional knowledge in climate initiatives and interactions between holders of traditional knowledges and non-tribal partners. • The Guidelines were originally developed to inform the Department of Interior’s Advisory Committee on Climate Change and Natural Resource Science (ACCCNRS) in May 2014.

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Guidelines for Considering Traditional Knowledges in Climate Change Initiatives

Guideline 1.

Understand key concepts and definitions related to TKs.

Guideline 2.

Recognize that indigenous peoples and holders of TKs have a right NOT to participate in federal interactions around TKs.

Guideline 3.

Understand and communicate risks for indigenous peoples and holders of TKs.

Guideline 4.

Establish an institutional interface between indigenous peoples, TK holders, and government for clear, transparent and culturally appropriate terms-of-reference, particularly through the development of formal research agreements.

Guideline 5.

Provide training for federal agency staff working with indigenous peoples on initiatives involving TKs.

Guideline 6.

Provide specific directions to all agency staff, researchers and non-indigenous entities to ensure that protections for TKs requested by tribes and knowledge holders are upheld.

Guideline 7.

Recognize the role of multiple knowledge systems.

Guideline 8.

Develop guidelines for review of grant proposals that recognize the value of TKs, while ensuring protections for TKs, indigenous peoples, and holders of TKs.

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Questions?

Sue Wotkyns

Climate Change Program Manager Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals Northern Arizona University [email protected]

928-523-1488 www4.nau.edu/itep/climatechange/

Kathy Lynn

Project Coordinator Pacific Northwest Tribal Climate Change Project Environmental Studies Program University of Oregon [email protected]

541-346-5777 http://tribalclimate.uoregon.edu/ 17