La décolonisation des politiques climatiques du Canada

The document critiques the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change and the 'A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy' plan for failing to establish genuine nation-to-nation relationships with Indigenous peoples. It asserts that current consultation processes are superficial, structurally exclude Indigenous voices from working groups, and ignore the role of the fossil fuel industry in violating Indigenous rights. The author emphasizes that integrating Indigenous knowledge systems—which view the Earth as a living, sacred entity—is essential for addressing the climate crisis. To remedy these failures, the document proposes a shift toward community-level engagement and the creation of an expert advisory council representing Canada's five biomes to ensure territory-based solutions.

• The Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change (2016) and the 'A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy' (2020) plan fail to achieve meaningful inclusion, consultation, or accommodation of Indigenous peoples.
• Consultation processes for federal climate policies are described as superficial and lacking transparency, often serving as a communication exercise rather than a genuine effort to build equitable relationships.
• Indigenous peoples have been structurally excluded from the working groups that shaped the Pan-Canadian Framework, and the time provided for consultation was insufficient for informed responses.
• Federal climate plans fail to address the fossil fuel industry as a primary driver of climate change and a violator of Indigenous rights that increases community vulnerability.
• Engaging only with national political organizations like the Assembly of First Nations, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, and the Métis National Council is insufficient, as ancestral knowledge resides at the community and territory level.
• Effective climate action requires the integration of Indigenous knowledge systems, which treat the Earth as a living, sentient being and view traditional oral history as equally valid to Western science.

APA

Canadian Climate Institute (2021). La décolonisation des politiques climatiques du Canada. https://institutclimatique.ca/publications/la-decolonisation-des-politiques-climatiques-du-canada/

Chicago

Canadian Climate Institute. La décolonisation des politiques climatiques du Canada. 2021. https://institutclimatique.ca/publications/la-decolonisation-des-politiques-climatiques-du-canada/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{canadianclimateinstitute2021dcolonisation, author = {{Canadian Climate Institute}}, title = {{La décolonisation des politiques climatiques du Canada}}, institution = {Canadian Climate Institute}, year = {2021}, month = oct, url = {https://institutclimatique.ca/publications/la-decolonisation-des-politiques-climatiques-du-canada/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }