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Indigenous Innovation and Leadership - Indigenous resurgence, resistance, and colonial legacies

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Indigenous Innovation and
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
3:45 PM - 5:45 PM

Speaker

Denni Clement
BC Indigenous Climate Adaptation Working Group (ICAWG)

Indigenous-led climate adaptation in British Columbia: Leading the way in Canada

5:00 PM - 5:45 PM

Biography

Co-Chair of ICAWG, Program Director of Resilience Climate Adaptation Network.
Denni Clement
BC Indigenous Climate Adaptation Working Group (ICAWG)

Indigenous-led climate adaptation in British Columbia: Leading the way in Canadain

5:00 PM - 5:45 PM

Biography

Co-Chair of ICAWG, Program Director of Resilience Climate Adaptation Network.
Ms Kristi Denby
Climate Change And Environment Policy Analyst
British Columbia Assembly of First Nations

Indigenous-led climate adaptation in British Columbia: Leading the way in Canada

5:00 PM - 5:45 PM

Biography

Climate Change and Environmental Policy Analyst, BC Assembly of First Nations
Charlie Gordon
Senior Policy Analyst
BC Climate Action Secretariat

Indigenous-led climate adaptation in British Columbia: Leading the way in Canada

5:00 PM - 5:45 PM

Biography

Senior Policy Analyst, BC Climate Action Secretariat
Patrick Michell
Lytton First Nation

Indigenous-led climate adaptation in British Columbia: Leading the way in Canada

5:00 PM - 5:45 PM

Biography

Lytton First Nation, Rebuild Director
Patrick Michell
Lytton First Nation

Indigenous-led climate adaptation in British Columbia: Leading the way in Canadain

5:00 PM - 5:45 PM

Biography

Lytton First Nation, Rebuild Director
Trent Moraes
Deputy Chief Councillor
Skidegate Band Council

Indigenous-led climate adaptation in British Columbia: Leading the way in Canadain

5:00 PM - 5:45 PM

Biography

Co-Chair of ICAWG; Deputy Chief Councillor of Skidegate Band Council (Haida Nation)
Trent Moraes
Deputy Chief Councillor
Skidegate Band Council

Indigenous-led climate adaptation in British Columbia: Leading the way in Canada

5:00 PM - 5:45 PM

Biography

Co-Chair of ICAWG; Deputy Chief Councillor of Skidegate Band Council (Haida Nation)
Dr Carol Farbotko
Research Fellow
Griffith University

Expanded Indigenous sovereignties

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Biography

A cultural geographer interested in place, culture, politics and mobility, I examine how these are changing in a changing climate.
Mrs Maelys Girault
Phd Candidate
Lienss

Colonial legacies on adaptive capacity to climate change: Relocation in New Caledonia (South Pacific)

4:00 PM - 4:15 PM

Biography

Maëlys Girault is a former student of the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon and a graduate of Sciences Po Paris. She is currently a doctoral student at the LIENSs laboratory in La Rochelle, her PhD focusing on “The interest of a Past-to-Future approach to support coastal adaptation to climate change: Application in New Caledonia and French Polynesia”.
Mr Clement Amponsah
PhD Student
University of Oxford

Decolonising resilience: Rethinking adaptation, environmental (in)justices, and resistance in northern Ghana

4:15 PM - 4:30 PM

Biography

Clement Amponsah is a PhD student in International Development at the University of Oxford. His research interests include resilience, adaptation, environment and climate justice, resistance and decolonisation. He is a Senior Researcher of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded research project on ‘Decolonising Resilience: African Voices in Conversation’ (ResilienceVoices).
Dr Shereen Begg
University of the South Pacific

Interweaving resource management with indigenous knowledge to build community resilience in the Pacific Islands: case of the Waimanu Catchment in Viti Levu, Fiji

4:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Biography

The author has just completed her PhD in climate change at the University of the South Pacific. Her research interests are vulnerability assessments, water quality assessments, climate change adaptation, natural resource management, and traditional knowledge systems.
Dr Manish Anand
Senior Fellow
The Energy and Resources Institute / TERI

Indigenous knowledge for climate resilience: India’s path to sustainable adaptation

4:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Biography

Dr. Manish Anand is a Senior Fellow at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in New Delhi, with over 18 years of experience in policy research, advocacy, and capacity building. He specializes in food, agriculture, land use, climate change, energy, and emerging technology policy, providing evidence-based advice to governments and stakeholders. As a visiting faculty member, he focuses on systems thinking, sustainability, and socio-economic empowerment. Dr. Anand has published in peer-reviewed journals, authored policy briefs, and co-edited two books, with academic training in science policy, innovation studies, developmental studies, and agriculture.
Charlie Gordon
Senior Policy Analyst
BC Climate Action Secretariat

Indigenous-led climate adaptation in British Columbia: Leading the way in Canadain

5:00 PM - 5:45 PM

Biography

Trent Moraes is co-Chair of BC Indigenous Climate Adaptation Working Group and Deputy Chief Councillor of Skidegate Band Council (Haida Nation) in BC. Denni Clement is co-Chair of BC Indigenous Climate Adaptation Working Group and Program Director of the Resilience Climate Adaptation Network. Patrick Michell is Rebuild Director for Lytton First Nation in BC. Kristi Denby is a Climate Change and Environmental Policy Analyst with the BC Assembly of First Nations. Charlie Gordon is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Climate Action Secretariat within the BC Ministry of Energy and Climate Solutions.
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