Core Principles for Agency Engagement to Support Community Rights for Climate Adaptation
This brief PDF document shares recommendations from The Rising Voices Working Group on Community Resettlement and Site Expansion, for NOAA’s Strategic Plan for Implementation of Justice40. Its purpose is to encourage collaborative work with across NOAA programs and offices to move these recommendations into action and commitment to support community-led adaptation and climate actions.
The document offers recommendations in these categories:
- Grants and Funding to Indigenous and Overburdened Communities
- Justice40 and IRA Funds
- Staffing for Systems Change
- Grant Administration and actions within Grant Cycles
- Data Sovereignty
- Community-led Resettlement and Recognizing the Right to Remain in Place
The document concludes that
"Successful climate adaptation and environmental justice grantmaking must start with real engagement with communities to honor their rights and priorities. Above all, it is a human right that you should be able to stay in your homelands and the creative adaptations forged in an era of change must not be premised upon a violation of that right."
