Indigenous Climate Action, an Indigenous-led organization, launched the Decolonizing Climate Policy research project in 2018. The project aimed to examine Canadian climate policy’s shortcomings and challenges while supporting and developing Indigenous-led climate policy. Released in 2021, the critique revealed that Indigenous Peoples were structurally excluded from the process of developing these climate plans, violating the right to self-determination and free, prior, and informed consent. In response to these findings, Indigenous Climate Action initiated Phase 2 to explore what Indigenous-led climate policy might entail and released a summary report in 2022. This summary report employs the medicine wheel to identify four key areas of discussion, which will be elaborated upon in the full publication, once it is released.
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