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Indigenous Communities Preparing for Climate Change and Emergency Response
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May 2, 2024

AS WE HEAD INTO SPRING, WE ARE REMINDED THAT INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES FACE IMPACTS of climate change in ways that can be particularly disruptive. Floods, wildfires, heat domes, and atmospheric rivers require new levels of emergency response.

Read this in-depth article on climate change and emergency management for Indigenous communities from Indigenous Corporate Training Inc.

The First Nations Health Authority has messages and information about emergency management and evacuation and health and cultural supports here.

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We acknowledge that the land on which we work is the unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.