Resources & Links on Indigenous Rights and Climate Change

Climate Change is an important issues when it comes to the rights of Indigenous peoples globally. Many Indigenous communities are already taking action to develop toolkits and positions with local, national and international governments to assert their inherent, treaty and internationally recognized rights.

Declarations and Moratoriums

The following is a short list of some of the notable declarations taken by Indigenous communities. If you would like your declaration included here please contact us.​

• Indigenous Peoples Global Summit on Climate Change, Anchorage Declaration, April 2009

• Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground Declaration

• Declaration on Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples of El Salvador

• The Bhutan Declaration on Climate Change and Mountain Indigenous Peoples

• The Tuggoz Declaration on Climate Change and Mountain Indigenous Peoples

• Mother Earth Accord

• Declaration of the Indigenous Peoples of the World to the UNFCCC COP 17

• Iqaluit Declaration 2015

• Kai-Oca 2 Declaration, Indigenous Peoples Global Conference on Rio +20 and Mother Earth

• The Oaxaca Action Plan of Indigenous Peoples: From Cancun to Durban and BeyondPeoples

Additional Resources and Links

• Historic Paris Agreement on Climate Change, UNFCCC

• ​References to Indigenous Peoples in the Paris Agreement Summary

• Guide on Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples, Tebtebba Indigenous Peoples International Center for Policy Research and Education

• Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights and Climate Change, International Indian Treaty Council

• Report of the Indigenous Peoples Global Summit on Climate Change, 2009 Anchorage, Alaska

• Anchorage Declaration, Indigenous Peoples Global Summit on Climate Change

• Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change, United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

• The role of International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change (IIPFCC) in Indigenous Peoples Climate Change Advocacy, International Working Group for Indigenous Affairs

• Vulnerability of Aboriginal health systems in Canada to climate change, Research paper James D. Ford, Lea Berrang-Ford, Malcolm King, Chris Furgal

• Impacts of Climate Change on First Nation Economies, Assembly of First Nations

• Hoodwinked in the Hothouse, False Solutions to Climate Change, 2nd Edition

• A Compendium of Case Studies - Advanced Guard Climate Change Impacts, Adapatation, Mitigation and Indigenous Peoples, Kristie Galloway McLean

• Caverley, N. (2011). Honouring the voices of Aboriginal Knowledge Keepers in the South Selkirks Region: Perspectives on climate change. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia.