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Indian time: time, seasonality, and culture in Traditional Ecological Knowledge of climate change

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I can offer an understanding of Anishinaabe law as I've come to know it, and I'm still learning because I think every person - and we know this - every person is continuously learning about what it is to live in the world. And I have elders who say that Anishinaabe law is not a philosophy or a theory, it's a way of life. And so we practise that way of life and we learn from it.

And to think to Anishinaabe law as something we are born with as a set of sacred or spiritual instructions that are given to us as we journey towards the earth, allows us then to see the world differently and learn from our natural environment.

And so that creates, from this core of spiritual law, an outer layer of natural law. And that natural law is what we observe from looking at our other brothers and sisters that are part of Creation.

From there we've developed this whole wealth of law over time. And it's a law that governs interactions amongst humans, as well as other beings, and how do we manage all those messy relationships?

Building on all of that, and sometimes in response to a particular situation, we'll have what is referred to as human law. And that is sometimes also talked about in the context of temporal law. So it's a law that comes in a particular form, at a moment in time, given a particular context and that is supported by that core of spiritual law, that understanding that comes from the natural world, the law that we've developed over time, and then we have a human response to a particular context and an ability to make decisions based on our protocols and our understanding of all of these levels of law that are ebbing and flowing and interacting with each other so that we can have appropriate human responses, and [so] that we can communicate with each other about what those responsibilities and obligations are.

That's the basic structure of Anishinaabe law, and when we think about water as part of that, we have spiritual instructions related to water. We see water's interaction in the natural environment and how other beings interact with water. That means observing natural environments, seeing what's happening with the water itself, but [also] other beings in Creation - fish, frogs, snakes, trees that surround the water, rocks that hold the waterline. We see the fluctuations in the high water mark by looking at those rocks. So, all of those other beings are being responsive to the water and for some reason as humans we sometimes think that water is this resource - it's either going to give us power through hydroelectric generation or it's going to sustain us by being clean for us to drink, and we think of it as really fragmented resources.

Article 25 of UNDRIP ensures that there is a protection of this longer-term relationship, this spiritual relationship between Indigenous people and their waters, lands, territories, in a way that allows for protection of that water, or that land or that territory, for future generations. So there are elements that are found within UNDRIP, which is aiming to affirm the self-determination of Indigenous people around the world in recognizing that special relationship that people have with lands and territories. And that includes that relationship with water, and to ensure that it can be preserved over time and recognizing also the spiritual nature of it. So UNDRIP is not recognizing water as a resource to be owned or managed, or controlled like most Western legal systems do, but it is actually saying, as Indigenous people, there is something further to that relationship, there is something that is deeper that emanates from your relationship with water, and that you have a right to preserve and maintain that.

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How UNDRIP Recognizes the Sacred Relationship with Nibi (Water)

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I can offer an understanding of Anishinaabe law as I've come to know it, and I'm still learning because I think every person - and we know this - every person is continuously learning about what it is to live in the world.

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Vision Statement

A world of empowered communities, governments, and actors networked to rapidly implement equitable and urgently-needed climate solutions from grassroots to global action.

Mission Statement

ECOS is a coalition of community builders enhancing climate change education, communication, and outreach endeavors of the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat, its member states, and sub-national entities around the world. It fosters collaboration and exchange of transformative knowledge and practices; broadens civic engagement; builds capacity; and shapes policy through a cohesive infrastructure for climate action.

ECOS Activity

The Education, Communication, and Outreach Stakeholder Community (ECOS) was formed in 2016 as a community officially recognized by the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat. ECOS supports effective, innovative efforts to build the capacity of individuals, communities, and organizations (both non-government and government) to make informed climate decisions.

ECOS is a "network of networks" that focuses on civic engagement, capacity building, policy development and climate literacy. We believe that effective, disruptive innovation is imperative to achieve the deep level of transformation required in order to address climate change. ECOS aims to serve the needs of communities and organizations that are involved with climate literacy and information but are outside the United Nations process. Our activities, goals, resources, and services will evolve over time to meet the needs of the ECOS community to build capacity for climate action. We continually seek to identify and lift effective practices and address key opportunities and constraints.

As part of the global effort to reduce the anthropogenic causes of climate change and to support multi-scale actions to minimize the harmful impacts of climate change through resilience and adaptation, the ECOS Community advocates for:

1. climate education (lifelong learning and climate literacy),

2. climate communication (information sharing and stakeholder interaction for sound decision-making),

3. climate outreach (inspiring innovative ideas and actions through meaningful messages,

4. climate participation (stakeholder voice as part of collaborative, pluralistic climate governance),

5. climate training (improve capacity in any and all relevant areas of climate science and policy, especially in education), and

6. climate engagement and empowerment (promoting activities to increase awareness and mobilize action).

ECOS and Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE)

Our community of experts and agents of change actively work towards inclusive and equitable education, access to information, training, public awareness, civic involvement, and international cooperation - key elements of Action for Climate Empowerment(ACE). ACE is the UN program that works to implement the original goals of Article 6 of the UNFCCC, which call for public involvement in developing meaningful and constructive responses to climate change. Implementation of ACE is done through the Doha Work Programme.

The original vision of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was very people-focused. In Article 6 of the Convention, renamed "Action for Climate Empowerment" or ACE in 2015, the parties agreed that education, public access to information, training for relevant professionals, and international collaboration and cooperation would allow the public to be directly involved in developing adequate responses to climate change. However, many parties have been limited to their response to fulfilling their commitments to inform and engage the public and professionals, and efforts to build literacy and the capacity for people to make informed decisions was left largely to motivated individuals and organizations to tackle on their own, often with little support. While there have been some important success stories, they have been the exception rather than the rule.

ECOS aims to support the UNFCCC Secretariat and its ACE efforts and focal points, as well as other stakeholders and enthusiasts working to build capacity for public engagement and informed climate action. A survey conducted in 2018 by ECOS found that the highest priority of the climate education, communication and outreach community is funding, which is an urgent need to nations, communities and individuals seeking to build community capacity to take informed climate action.

ECOS is currently exploring the potential for a Climate Literacy & Engaged Action Response (CLEAR) Fund to help communities around the world develop community-based climate education, communication and outreach engagement and action partnerships and initiatives.

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A world of empowered communities, governments, and actors networked to rapidly implement equitable and urgently-needed climate solutions from grassroots to global action. ECOS is a coalition of community builders enhancing climate change education, communication, and outreach endeavors of the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat, its member states, and sub-national entities around the world.

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United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

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YOUNGO is the official children and youth constituency of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). YOUNGO is a vibrant, global network of children and youth activists (up to 35 years) as well as youth NGOs, who contribute to shaping the intergovernmental climate change policies and strive to empower youth to formally bring their voices to the UNFCCC processes.

In 2009, the UNFCCC secretariat extended constituency status to admitted youth NGOs. YOUNGO's vision is to empower children and youth to take action and works to enhance their skills and capacity to drive the necessary and ambitious climate actions and policies at all levels towards a livable climate just future. YOUNGO representatives make official statements, provide technical and policy inputs to negotiations and engage with decision-makers at the UN climate change conferences, and promote youth participation in climate change projects at local and national levels.

YOUNGO focuses on the following areas:
1) Awareness, Knowledge and Capacity Building
2) Collaboration, Cooperation and Network
3) Policy, Lobby and Advocacy
4) Youth Action
YOUNGO Focal Points

2022

Elizabeth Gulugulu
YOUNGO Focal Point from the Global South
Zimbabwe
Email: egulugulu@youngoclimate.org

Elizabeth Gulugulu is an Msc Candidate in Biodiversity Conservation, and a member of African Youth Initiative on Climate Change Zimbabwe. She is interested in youth participation in Climate Change Policy and has led several consultations on meaningful youth engagement in National Adaptation Plans and Nationally Determined Contributions.

Xan Northcott
YOUNGO Focal Point from the Global North

Email: xannorthcott@youngoclimate.org

The details for YOUNGO focal points from preceding years can be found below.

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YOUNGO is the official children and youth constituency of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). YOUNGO is a vibrant, global network of children and youth activists (up to 35 years) as well as youth NGOs, who contribute to shaping the intergovernmental climate change policies and strive to empower youth to formally bring their voices to the UNFCCC processes.

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Library Collections Policy

Policy Statement
The Library Collection Policy aims to provide an accessible, valued and highly used electronic resource collection available 24/7 to the Altiorem community.
Application
This policy establishes the principles and guidelines for the management and acquisition of library resources relevant to the Altiorem community and to account to the public for the selection of resources.

Altiorem's objective is to facilitate free and equitable access to curated electronic resources relevant to sustainable finance. Altiorem supports advocates for sustainable finance while also engaging and educating the next generation of finance leaders. The library is committed to ensuring the community has access to a current and relevant collection of library materials, with a diversity of credible content.

The reasons for preparing a Collection Policy include:

Inform the community of the principles by which the library's collections are selected, maintained, developed and deselected.

To keep the collection current, relevant and accessible;

To ensure that the collection is continually monitored to meet changing community needs;

As a management tool and for internal communication and training of staff;

To ensure that professional objectivity informs the selection and weeding processes;

Responsible management and allocation of collection budget for current and future priorities.

Best practice collection management requires that the collection's performance must be continually monitored to make sure it is meeting community needs. Resources must be constantly evaluated and out of date, superseded and irrelevant items replaced on a regular basis. Securing the budget to ensure the collection's success is a key factor in good collection management.
Definitions
Collection Development: Collection Development refers to the process of planning, evaluating, building, maintaining, and weeding a library's collection to meet community demand.

Contributors: Volunteers who complete Summaries that ensure the material meets Altiorem's collection criteria.

Electronic Resources: An electronic resource is any information source that the library provides access to in an electronic format.

Mentors: Experienced finance or sustainability issue professionals who volunteer to support contributors in publishing content and in curating and prioritising new content and weeding the collection.

Summaries: A dynamic document that identifies core collection requirements provided to library suppliers to assist in selection.

Sustainable finance: More than integrating environmental, social and governance factors into investment & financing decisions, it is an industry which, through the allocation of financial capital and positive influence, supports flourishing social and environmental systems with principles of stewardship and responsibility at its core.

Trello: Electronic workflow and communications platform used by Altiorem to manage the collection.

Weeding: The continuous, systematic removal of resources from a library based on selected criteria.
Collection Management Principles - Library Collection
The library is an electronic resource collection. It includes materials available in a variety of formats which may include but are not limited to webpages, PDFs, eBooks, online databases and tools, online news articles, academic articles, videos and podcasts. While the relevance of the content of material is a primary consideration, the format can affect its suitability.

Altiorem is committed to providing resources that reflect the needs of Altiorem's community . Collections are shaped by feedback and suggestions from our community; this process is open to the public, with suggestions emailed to research@altiorem.org or via a web form accessible from most pages of the library. Suggested content is listed in the Trello board, Altiorem Workflow, for assessment.

Staff and Mentors evaluate suggested resources through applying the criterion of explicit demonstration of sustainable finance relevance. Accepted resources are categorised by priority, complexity, number of pages, topic covered and content type. All resources undergo a process where they are summarised by our community of volunteers before they are freely accessible to library members.

Resources may not be excluded from selection based on personal taste, moral or political viewpoints, social or ideological variance. Resources will be considered for selection based on their own merit and the audience for whom it is intended.

To ensure the collection is maintained resources are regularly removed from the collection as part of the library's weeding program. Refer to the weeding guidelines below.
Weeding Guidelines
The weeding process is vital for Altiorem's capacity to continuously provide a current and relevant collection.

The criteria used for removal of resources include:
Selection Criteria
The collection is subject to the application of the following criterion:

Demonstration of explicit sustainable finance relevance. For the purposes of determining sustainable finance relevance, Altiorem staff and mentors refer to those subjects defined in Altiorem's taxonomy of issues, cases and implementation activities.

Once approved the collection is prioritised for inclusion according to the current needs of the library, for example if a gap in human rights content has been identified, suggested content which fills that gap will be prioritised.
The Collections
The collection is organised in accordance with Altiorem's taxonomy of issues, cases and implementation activities. Staff and volunteers can find out more about the Taxonomy on Trello and in the latest Contributor Manual located on the Altiorem Workflow board on Trello.
Collection Management and Responsibility
The Head of Research and the Business Manager are responsible for the development and implementation of collection management guidelines.
Budget
Altiorem procures freely available electronic resources. The budget for Altiorem's collection is focused on providing a website that is easily navigated and information that is current and correct to ensure the library collection is accessible and relevant to the community.
Policy Review
This Policy will be reviewed every two years or as required in the event of legislative changes. Any amendment to this Policy must be by way of the approval of Altiorem's Managing Director.

Approved by the managing director on 3 April 2020.

Library Operations Policy

Policy statement
Altiorem's operations policy outlines how Altiorem provides and maintains an accessible, high quality, comprehensive and useful sustainable finance library for our members.
Objective
The primary objective of the Altiorem Library is to facilitate free and equitable access to quality assured information on electronic resources dedicated to sustainable finance. Altiorem supports advocates for sustainable finance while also engaging and educating the next generation of finance leaders. The library's operations seek to ensure the community has access to a current and relevant collection of library materials, with a diversity of content in a variety of formats.
Altiorem's ecosystem
Altiorem has developed a scalable and flexible ecosystem which allows university student volunteers (who we call contributors) to work with experts (who we call mentors) to summarise and categorise research and other content for the library. Altiorem provides the tools, templates, taxonomies and training necessary to produce high quality, reliable, consistent and usable information for the Altiorem community (members of the library).

The system also relies on the community of users to suggest new content. The network effects which stem from these interactions will allow the library to continuously improve and maintain relevance to the community's evolving needs.
Collection management and development
See Altiorem's Library Collection Policy for the principles and guidelines for the management and acquisition of library resources relevant to the Altiorem community.
Website maintenance
Maintenance of Altiorem's information webpages are updated on an ongoing basis with formal review occurring at least annually.
Systems maintenance
Altiorem uses several external online services to organise library content and communicate with volunteers. Altiorem's external systems will be reviewed annually or as required.
Security of systems
Staff, contractors and volunteers are authorised to use Altiorem's accounts when assigned a user account or granted access by Altiorem to user only areas. Altiorem's user only areas include:

Users must maintain good security hygiene of the device, including the following:

A device must not be used where it is known to have a security compromise. Users must reinstall the operating system and all software from trustworthy sources before continuing to use the device.

Users must not store confidential or valuable data on a personally owned device, instead it should be uploaded to the relevant cloud systems such as WordPress, Trello or Google Drive.
Membership
Altiorem seeks to:

Provide clear and intuitive avenues for member feedback and correspondence.

Demonstrate responsive and professional communication with member correspondence.

Complaints and grievances
Members can make a formal complaint by completing the feedback form on the website or by contacting Altiorem at info@altiorem.org .

Altiorem will respond to all complaints. The complaint will be managed in accordance with Altiorem's complaints procedure.
Complaints procedure: Managing stakeholder relations
Altiorem is committed to working with a broad range of stakeholders including professional network members, industry organisations, university employees and students, Altiorem members and the community. Altiorem values the expertise, knowledge and experience that stakeholders contribute and aims to harness this to ensure that the best informed decisions are made in relation to Altiorem's strategic priorities, policies and operations. Although it is not possible to always collaborate or consult, Altiorem is open to different views, needs and expectations to continuously improve and better target objectives of the Altiorem Library. Altiorem is committed to building relationships with stakeholders and the community based on trust and respect, to achieve these objectives.
Marketing and social media
Altiorem uses social media to communicate to our community, to attract new users and to further our mission of changing finance for good. All published posts must embody the correct application of Altiorem's branding and logo. Altiorem staff must use social media in accordance with principles of integrity, professionalism and respect for others and Altiorem.

Library Staffing Policy

The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) characterises the qualities and skills of public library staff as:

The ability to understand the needs of users

Knowledge of the library's collections, programs and services and to efficiently access these

The ability to communicate positively with people

The ability to work with others in providing an effective library service

The ability to cooperate with individuals and groups in the community

Imagination, vision and openness to new ideas and practice

Knowledge of and ability to use ICT to improve service delivery and customer use of information.

Changes in how people discover, access and consume information have prompted changes in library services, leading to a need for different skills in the library workforce. It requires staff who embrace the potential of technology and creatively find appropriate ways to embed it in library services.

Professional and continuing education of the library workforce is essential to a sustainable quality library service.
Objective
To ensure that the number, competencies and mix of library staff support a range of services and programs which meet the needs of the community.

The primary objective of the Altiorem Library is to facilitate free and equitable access to quality assured information of electronic resources dedicated to sustainable finance. Altiorem supports advocates for sustainable finance while also engaging and educating the next generation of finance leaders. The library is committed to ensuring staff have the support and skills needed to provide our members with a current, relevant and diverse library.
Staffing requirements
Library staff include both paid and suitably qualified and experienced volunteers, who are appropriately trained to discharge their particular job responsibilities.

The Head of Research is a paid position and is responsible for maintaining the collection and managing volunteers in accordance with the collections policy. Staffing levels are sufficient to deliver the services set out in the library's strategy or plan, and are appropriate for the library's community.

Altiorem is an online library enabling our members 24-hour access to our electronic collections.

Staff requirements to ensure the quality delivery of Altiorem Library material to its members:
Staffing Mix
A library service's commitment and responsiveness to its community is reflected in the mix of library staff selected to provide library programs and services.

Altiorem is a specialist library dedicated to electronic resources on sustainable finance. Due to Altiorem's focus, the staffing mix is comprised of both specialist (sustainable finance) staff and non-specialist (operations) staff.

Altiorem is a community focused and community run library that relies on a network of sustainable finance students and professional volunteers to ensure the collections are current, relevant and diverse. See our Volunteer Policy for further information.
Professional development
All library staff are educated on Altiorem's operations, policies, standards and culture upon induction. Any changes or updates to Altiorem's operations, policies, standards and culture are explicitly communicated to staff. This seeks to ensure that staff have the sufficient knowledge and skills to undertake the requirements of their roles with a minimum of supervision.

We facilitate and actively encourage ongoing professional education on a formal and informal basis. Formal training is supported by informal skills transfer, mentoring and information sessions for staff.

Library staff are encouraged to participate in reading, online exchange of ideas, and by attending courses, conferences, and meetings.

This Policy will be reviewed every two years or as required in the event of legislative changes. Any amendment to this Policy must be by way of the approval of Altiorem's Managing Director.

Approved by the managing director on 3 April 2020.

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Policy Statement The Library Collection Policy aims to provide an accessible, valued and highly used electronic resource collection available 24/7 to the Altiorem community. Application This policy establishes the principles and guidelines for the management and acquisition of library resources relevant to the Altiorem community and to account to the public for the selection of resources.

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Three youth leaders who attended COP26 will moderate this session:
Jacob Genuise and Cody Sanford, Colorado State University, and Eugene Agyei, Michigan Technical University.