Energy & Climate
Upholding Indigenous rights in clean energy policies and programs nationally and internationally
The Energy & Climate team manages ICE’s National and Global Hubs. Their collective aim is to ground policy and program work in the needs and interests of Indigenous communities and uphold Indigenous climate leadership.
The team utilizes a collaborative, community-driven approach to ensure a clean energy future that respects the rights and self-determination of Indigenous Peoples and enriches their communities.
Functionality and Focus
The Energy & Climate team is designed to interconnect and augment Indigenous clean energy work in communities with national and international efforts.
The National Hub and Global Hub respectively focus on their own initiatives yet maintain a collective model to strengthen internal co-creation, sustainability, and accountability. The foundation for this program is based on an adaptive model of collective governance as informed by the Indigenous Nations we hold relations with.
National Hub
The National Hub coordinates ICE’s programming to inform regional and national clean energy policy that strategically supports Indigenous clean energy projects and sovereignty.
By responding to real program gaps and recommendations, the National Hub informs impactful and sustainable Indigenous clean energy policy, programming, regulatory frameworks, and funding development.
Global Hub
The Global Hub supports Indigenous communities around the world using a decolonial approach to advance global Indigenous solidarity and create community-led energy systems.
Utilizing lessons learned and best practices from Turtle Island, the Global Hub works with Indigenous relations, governing bodies, civil society groups, utilities, the private sector, and other relevant regional groups to build rights-centred and impact-oriented just transitions for sustainable communities.
Objectives
- Uphold Indigenous rights and self-determination in clean energy policies and programs
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Strengthen Indigenous-specific technical capacity of programming to responsively capture unique project
needs and help mitigate climatic and economic shocks and uncertainty -
Connect Nation-to-Nation relationships to build energy-sovereign economic pathways for global climate
security
Listen to Decolonizing Power, ICE’s podcast that features inspiring stories about Indigenous and community-led clean energy projects from around the world.
Contributors and Collaborators
If you are interested in collaborating with or supporting the Global Hub program, please do not hesitate to reach out to us.
