Water Policy Consulting, LLC, ACCAP, and tribal environmental and climate change professionals throughout the country, together, are offering the Winter 2015-16 Policy & Climate Adaptation Mitigation and Planning for Alaska Natives webinars series. The series will demonstrate how Native Villages and other communities in Alaska can apply state, federal and tribal policies to address climate change impacts on water and subsistence resources through water resource management and protection, land and water rights, sovereignty and other resiliency and mitigation strategies.
Presentation by Hal Shepherd, Water Policy Consulting, LLC.Covering Federal, state and tribal policies as they apply to arctic peoples and places and drawing on local and traditional knowledge in applying polar law and policy to climate change. Includes US Federal government climate change related initiatives for Alaska arising out of President Obama's recent visit to the State; the interest in the Arctic region that the European Union and other international bodies have recently expressed at the inter and intra governmental level and the application of Indigenous rights and policies of the arctic region to address climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Topics Include:
- Structuring of the regulatory avenues that international governing organizations are putting into place for developing policies applicable to the Arctic region;
- Recent US Federal government climate change related initiatives for Alaska;
- The Denali Commission’s as Coordinator of federal climate change policies in Alaska;
- Finding solutions tailored to the needs of the Arctic region at the international level;
- Using the international-law and Human rights perspective for cooperation with other Arctic State partners.