Indigenous Leadership — Blog

Exploring Pathways for Indigenous Governance in IPCAs

By Megan Youdelis

Through many collaborative discussions between stream members over the course of 2021, the members of the Conservation Governance Stream decided to advance a Governance Scan. The scan will be a key product of our collective work. (Photo Credit: Steve Monk, stevemonk.ca)

CRPFebruary 28, 2023conservation governance, Indigenous Leadership, Indigenous laws, Indigenous knowledge systems

Re-centring on the Land – Towards an Agenda for Indigenous-led Climate Policy

By Graeme Reed

Drawing on interviews with ten Indigenous experts and our experience within the Indigenous climate movement we framed the broad principles of what an Indigenous approach to climate policy looked like. This enabled us to begin outlining an agenda that seeks to dismantle colonialism and capitalism in climate policy simultaneously. (Photo: Image of a floating iceberg. Photo Credit: Stock Image).

CRPSeptember 8, 2021Climate Policy, Indigenous Leadership, self-determination

Nature-Based Solutions

By Justine Townsend, PhD Candidate and CRP Researcher

May 15, 2020

Between 2018 and 2020 a team of researchers from the CRP at the University of Guelph joined with Anwaatin and Shared Value Solutions to explore nature-based solutions in an Indigenous context. We looked at the potential alignment of Indigenous-led conservation (i.e. conservation and stewardship led by Indigenous Peoples) and Indigenous-led, nature-based carbon storage (e.g. carbon offsets) by centering Indigenous perspectives.