Transcript Hardison_NatlAdaptStrat

I would like to thank the Kalispell Tribe
of Indians for their opening of their
ancestral lands for our meeting, and for
this opportunity to speak
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Tribal Responses to the National
Adaptation Strategy
Terry Williams and Preston Hardison
for Garrit Voggesser
Tulalip Tribes Treaty Rights
6/14/2011
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Global Climate Change Impacts
A major threat to Tribal economies,
traditions and ways of life
Crosses all boundaries
Impacts on Tribal economies through:
Defensive costs: floods, fire, drought, loss of economic
species, health costs (human, livestock, wildlife)
Lost economic opportunities, particularly related to natural
resources
Requires shifts in economic priorities
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Global Climate Change Impacts
Impacts on Tribal lifeways through:
Species range shifts: loss of access to culturally important
species
Invasive species, forest pests, crop pests
Ocean acidification
Erosion (86% of Alaskan NVs at risk, 4 relocating)
Ecological disturbance: predictability, extremes, phenology,
habitat loss
Loss of opportunities to hunt, fish, gather, trap, harvest,
perform rituals on the landscape, native foods
Impacts on sacred sites
Loss of associated traditional knowledge and practices
Cultural resources already at risk
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Global Climate Change Responses
Mitigation
Reduce Emissions
 Reduce Demand
 Clean Technology
 Clean Energy
 Reduce Deforestation
Capture Greenhouse Gases (primarily carbon)
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Carbon Capture and Storage (sequestration)
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Forests
Ecosystems
Geosequestration
Ocean sequestration
Global Climate Change Responses
Adaptation
Unavoidable Impacts
 Committed climate change “in the pipeline”
 Lag times in circulation
 Persistence of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere
Measures to Reduce the Impacts
 Reducing non-climate impacts
 Tribal community sectors
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Energy, housing, water, air quality, production (livestock, crops)
Ecosystem-based Adaptation: maintaining, where feasible,
conditions to maintain cultural resources
Adaptive adaptation: Planning for change, surprise,
resilience
Tribal Impacts
Tribes not the primary cause
Tribes disproportionately impacted
Environmental/climate justice, treaty rights issues
Treaty rights and the Trust Responsibility
Tribes reserved their right to continue their forms of
governance and ways of life
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Tribal Impacts
Tribes severely underfunded in existing
NR/Conservation Programs
Not eligible for Federal aid in Wildlife Restoration Act
(Pittman-Robertson) or the Federal Aid in Sport Fish
Restoration Act (Dingell-Johnson)
F/Y 2010-2011: States received $1 billion these + state programs
F/Y 2010-2011: Tribes received 7 million from USFWS Tribal Wildlife Grants
(.007% of State funding)
2002-2010 FWS Funding for Fish and Wildlife Conservation
States received $6.25 billion, Tribes received $72.2 million (1/86)
2002-2010 BIA budget has grown 9%, versus %23 for other
Interior
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Federal Initiatives
Agency
Acres (millions)
Funding (millions)
BLM
258
$17.5
FWS
50
$67.5
NPS
84
$9.9
USGS
$72.9
Reclamation
$7
BIA/Tribes
95
$0.2
F/Y 2012 Appropriations for the Climate Change Adaptation
Initiative relative to Holdings in Federal Land Base
Tribes occupy about 4% of total land base of the US
Tribes occupy about 25% of the Federal land base
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Tribal Responses
Request $8.75 million through BIA programs for
dedicated allocation to Tribes
Presidential Memorandum on Tribal Consultation,
November 5, 2009
Reaffirms Executive Order 13175, Consultation and
Coordination with Indian Tribal Governments
Secretarial Order 3289, February 22, 2010
Addressing the Impacts of Climate Change on America’s
Water, Land, and Other Natural and Cultural Resources
“substantive participation by tribes in deliberations on
climate-related mechanisms, agreements, rules, and
regulations”
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Tribal Impacts
BIA Climate Adaptation Initiative
Dedicated personnel
Tribally-identified priorities
Tribally-identified priority programs for consultation,
education, and engagement, capacity building, adaptation
research, analyses, and vulnerability assessments, and
adaptation pilot projects
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Global Climate Change Responses
BIA Climate Change Program
BIA Central Office Climate Change Coordinator $110,000
BIA CC Coordinator Travel
$30,000
BIA Administrative Position
$65,000
Six BIA CC Field Staff
$390,000
Field Staff Travel
$90,000
Administrative Costs
$65,000
Total
$750,000
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Global Climate Change Responses
Tribal Priority Programs
12 Tribal CC Field Positions
$780,000
Field Position Travel
$180,000
Administrative Costs, Supplies and Communications
$50,000
Office Space
$40,000
Tribal Meetings/Workshops/Webinars
$150,000
Tribal Participation in CSC/LCC (travel)
$150,000
Tribal Participation in CSC/LCC (stipends)
$150,000
Adaptation research, analyses, and vulnerability assessments $2,000,000
Capacity Building and Tribal CC Adaptation Planning
$3,000,000
Climate Adaptation Pilot Projects
$1,500,000
Total
$8,000,000$750,000
LCC = Landscape Conservation Cooperative; CSC = Climate Science Center
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Tribal Responses
Tribal leaders need to consider and provide
support
Tribes need to brought in at the beginning
and consulted on a G2G basis
Other Federal Initiatives
National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation
Strategy
http://www.wildlifeadaptationstrategy.gov/
Fish and Wildlife Service Comments on National Fish,
Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy by July 1,
2011
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Tribal Responses
For more information contact:
Garrit Voggesser <[email protected]>
National Wildlife Federation
Jose Aguto <[email protected]>
NCAI
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