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  • Canada Research Chair in Urban Planning for Climate Change, Associate Professor of Geography and Civil Engineering, University of Victoria
A solar-panel installation completed by the Nuxalk Nation in Bella Coola, B.C. (New Relationship Trust)

Indigenous‑led renewable energy projects offer benefits that reach far beyond reducing carbon emissions

Ian Munroe, University of Toronto; Anna Berka, Griffith University, and Christina E. Hoicka, University of Victoria

Indigenous-owned renewable energy projects are growing quickly in Canada. New research suggests they could enable widespread acceptance of energy transitions.
Solar panel array is seen outside the administration building at the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, in North Vancouver, B.C., in June 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

A First Nations power authority could transform electricity generation for Indigenous nations

Christina E. Hoicka, University of Victoria; Adam J. Regier, University of Victoria; Anna Berka, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University, and Sara Chitsaz, University of Victoria

A coalition of First Nations and organizations is advocating for changes to electricity regulations and laws in B.C. to give Indigenous communities more control over developing renewable electricity projects.
Environment activists join a Bristol Youth Strike 4 Climate (BYS4C) rally on Feb. 28, 2020 in Bristol, U.K. (Shutterstock)

The fight against the climate crisis must not increase inequalities

Hélène Madénian, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS); Christina E. Hoicka, University of Victoria; Geneviève Cloutier, Université Laval; Laura Tozer, University of Toronto; Sophie L. Van Neste, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), and Stéphane Guimont Marceau, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)

The ecological transition can sometimes work to the detriment of marginalized communities. Any approach to climate action must take issues of equity and justice into account.
Les impacts des changements climatiques dans les communautés s’accentuent et tendent à accroitre les inégalités associées. La Presse canadienne/Graham Hughes

Il faut éviter que la lutte contre la crise climatique ne creuse davantage les inégalités

Hélène Madénian, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS); Christina E. Hoicka, University of Victoria; Geneviève Cloutier, Université Laval; Laura Tozer, University of Toronto; Sophie L. Van Neste, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), and Stéphane Guimont Marceau, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)

La transition écologique peut parfois se faire au détriment des communautés marginalisées. Toute démarche d’action climatique doit donc prendre en compte les enjeux d’équité et de justice.
Indigenous communities can be involved in renewable energy projects in a number of ways. The benefits of revenues to communities can be important to improving their self-determination and economic reconciliation. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

How Indigenous economic development corporations can support a just, low‑carbon energy transition

Christina E. Hoicka, University of Victoria and Matthew Foss

Indigenous economic development corporations can generate income for communities and support the transition to clean energy.
All 197 countries represented at COP26 signed the pact. Robert Perry/EPA

COP26: experts react to the UN climate summit and Glasgow Pact

Christina E. Hoicka, University of Victoria; Daniel Sperling, University of California, Davis; Ian Lowe, Griffith University; Kate Dooley, The University of Melbourne; Kyla Tienhaara, Queen's University, Ontario; Mariola Acosta Francés, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA); Mark Maslin, UCL; Piers Forster, University of Leeds; Ran Boydell, Heriot-Watt University, and Simon Lewis, UCL

Has the summit delivered on its goals?

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