Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change: Insights from Eriel Tchekwie Deranger into Indigenous Climate Action

Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change is a series of four separate workshops featuring speakers who share their insights on Indigenous environmental leadership, community action, and land-based learning initiatives. 

In this workshop, Eriel Tchekwie Deranger will share her story of the creation of Indigenous Climate Action, an Indigenous-led Climate Justice initiative in so called Canada. Deranger has over two decades of experience working in local, national and international Climate change discourse, as a spokesperson for her community and within roles of various non-Indigenous organizations.

By exploring lived experiences and the role of personal and institutional decolonization, we can unpack the how and the why of the deep importance of Indigenous knowledge, rights and unique climate solutions in achieving true climate justice. This workshop will explore settler colonial history and its role in silencing critical Indigenous knowledge systems, how more recent attempts to redress this have fallen short of true justice, and why this is a huge threat to climate change solutions frameworks for the future. 

This event has been generously funded by the Chamandy Foundation.

Facilitator: Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, Dënesųłiné member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) and Executive Director and founder of Indigenous Climate Action (ICA) and 2024 Winner of the Climate Breakthrough Global award

Format: Online via Zoom

Audience: Concordia community and external