Tribes, Climate Change and Solutions
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- America's Climate Security Act of 2008 (Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act)
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America's Climate Security Act of 2008 (Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act)
The Lieberman-Warner Climate Security (S. 2191) is a bipartisan bill introduced by Senators Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and John Warner (R-VA), helps cut global warming pollution by 2% per year, provides funding for wildlife to survive, and boosts the economy through revenue generated from the “cap and trade” system.
Current provisions in the bill are also relevant to America’s Indigenous communities and Tribes facing the impacts of global climate change. Relevant provisions include Disruption and Dislocation Assistance for Tribes, Natural Resource Adaptation Program, and Energy Assistance funds.
While S. 2191 outlines precedent-setting solutions to prevent wildlife and people from suffering from the impacts of global warming, the bill still has room for improvement when it comes to funding, allocation, and protection, for Tribes.
Please read the information below, click the link to find out who your senators are, and use the letter provided as a template to contact your Senators and let them know about the Tribal provisions that are important to YOU.
- Materials
- NWF Fact Sheet - America’s Climate Security Act of 2008 and Tribes (PDF)
- National Tribal Environmental Council (NTEC) Analysis of America’s Climate Security Act (PDF)
- National Tribal Environmental Council (NTEC) Recommended Changes to Address Tribal Issues and Concerns (PDF)
- Talking Points Concerning Tribal Issues in America’s Climate Security Act (PDF)
- Act Now! Write Your Senators to Support Tribal Set-Aside Provisions in S 2191
- NWF View - Egg Frying Weather
- Kyoto Protocol Fact Sheet (December 1997)
- Investing in America's Natural Resources - The Urgent Need for Climate Change Legislation. By the National Wildlife Federation. (May 2008)
- Bingaman Resolution (June 22, 2005)
- Editorial on Passage of Bingaman Resolution (June 27, 2005)
- Summary
of The Lieberman-McCain Climate Stewardship Act
(October 30, 2003) - Summary of the Waxman Safe Climate Act (June 19, 2006)
- Summary of the Jeffords Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act (July 20, 2006)
- Senator Feinstein Outlines New Legislation to Curb Global Warming, Keep Economy Strong (March 26, 2006)
- Fueling the Fire: Global Warming, Fossil Fuels and the Fish and Wildlife of the American West (September 2006)
- State & Regional Programs to Address Global Warming
- Center for Climate Strategies - State Climate Action Plans (Completed since 2000; links to various western states' plans) - Center for Climate Strategies
- Western Governors' Association, Regional and National Policies Regarding Global Climate Change (June 13, 2006)
- Western Governors' Association, Transportation Fuels for the Future (June 13, 2006)
- Western Governors' Association, Policy Resolution on Clean and Diversified Energy for the West (June 11, 2006)
- Press
Release - California Emissions Cap (February
16, 2006)
- California Emissions Cap Document (74 pages - February 16, 2006)
- Alaska Climate Resolution (2006)
- Climate Change And Prairie Wetlands (October 2005)
- Climate Change Wetlands Fact Sheet (2006)
- Oregon Strategy for Greenhouse Gas Reductions: Governor's Advisory Group On Global Warming (192 pages - December 2004)
- National Wildlife Federation Solutions Fact Sheet (August 11,2006)
- Cities Working Together to Protect Our Air Quality, Health and Environment: A Call to Action (March 30, 2005)
- http://www.pewclimate.org/ and for the latest developments regionally, nationally and around the globe link to http://www.pewclimate.org/what_s_being_done/
- http://www.apolloalliance.org/
- http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/
- http://www.mtclimatechange.us/
- http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/mtnclim/
- http://www.nwf.org/globalwarming/
- http://www.targetglobalwarming.org/
- Arizona's Climate Change Advisory Group - http://www.azclimatechange.us/
- California Climate Change Portal - http://www.climatechange.ca.gov/
- Montana Climate Change Advisory Committee - http://www.mtclimatechange.us/
- New Mexico's Climate Change Advisory Group -
http://www.nmclimatechange.us/ - North Carolina Climate Change Advisory Group - http://www.ncclimatechange.us/
- Oregon Climate Change Integration Group -
http://www.oregon.gov/ENERGY/GBLWRM/CCIG.shtml - Vermont Climate Change Advisory Group - http://www.vtclimatechange.us/
- Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative - http://www.rggi.org/
- Climate Change and Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations
- Report [http://www.evergreen.edu/nwindian/pdf/papers
/IndigClimate.pdf] - Powerpoint [http://academic.evergreen.edu/g/grossmaz/ IndigClimate.ppt]
- Report [http://www.evergreen.edu/nwindian/pdf/papers
- Native Peoples/Native Homelands Climate Change Workshop - Final Report
- National Congress of American Indians - Resolution on Climate Change
- Climate-Friendly Buildings: Construction With Straw Bales [click on the poster image, and then on the center of the "map", to enlarge it]
- Reducing Carbon Emissions With Wind Power [click on the poster image, and then on the center of the "map", to enlarge it]
- Recharging the National Renewable Energy Grid in the West [click on the poster image, and then on the center of the "map", to enlarge it]
- Tribal Governments and the Climate Crisis: Bringing Renewable Energy Online in Indian Country. By Dean Suagee and Douglas C. MacCourt
- Native Communities and Climate Change, Protecting Tribal Resources, as a Part of National Climate Change Policy. By University of Colorado Law School
- Is Global Warming Causing More, Larger Wildlifes? By Steven W. Running. Sciencexpress Research Article.
- Warming and Earlier Spring Increases Western U.S. Forest Wildlife Activity. By A.L. Westerling, H.G. Hidalgo, D.R. Cayan and T.W. Swetnam. Sciencexpress Research Article.
- Bibliography:
Climate Change and Its Impact on Biodiversity.
Prepared by Wil Burns, Co-Chair, American Society of
International Law - Wildlife Interest Group
This bibliography of peer-reviewed and gray literature (including journal articles, newspaper articles, reports and materials on the Internet) focuses on climate change defined herein as global warming or ozone depletion) and its impacts on flora and fauna species and critical supporting ecosystems. Over 2013 citations have been included to date.
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