Institute for Climate and Peace

In March 2024, ICP launched our newest program: Ka‘a I Ka Wiwo‘ole: Brave Enough From the Frontlines of Our Climate Resilient Futures. This multigenerational training and networking program uplifts adolescent BIPOC girls and women leaders to co-create and contribute to their community’s resilience and build the skills, networks, and passion to champion climate justice together. Participants engaged in learning about local, Indigenous, and ancient knowledge systems that uphold values of mālama ʻāina, perpetuating the well-being of our lands and our people from mauka (mountainside) to makai (oceanside). In addition, participants engaged in a climate and gender roundtable and discourse on leadership, goal setting, and futures-thinking while connecting deeper with the environment, eachother, and the wider community. ICP will be planning the next phase of programming in Fall 2024 to develop the first girl-led climate emergency response toolkit for Hawai‘i. Keep an eye out through our channels and subscribe to our newsletter for more information on applying for the Fall program! Special mahalo to Wakeful State, Ke Kula Nui O Waimānalo, and Elyse Butler! For more information please reach out to info@climateandpeace.org! Humanity United, The Climate Reality Project, The Solutions Project, Harold K.L. Castle Foundation, Hawaii Community Foundation, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Waimanalo Limu Hui, Gender and Environment Data Alliance (GEDA) https://lnkd.in/gQJguACG

For many communities impacted by shifting political tides and policies, the next four years appear stormy. The impacts of climate change on communities are undeniable, yet at a time when global cooperation is more critical than ever, the United States has turned inward, withdrawing from the Paris Agreement and abandoning its commitments to climate action. But we are not without guidance in this journey. We have collective agency in dispelling harmful narratives, building communities of solidarity, and designing and implementing powerful solutions. Read our new Blogpost: Wayfinding Through The Storm: Pacific Leadership in a Shifting Political Climate https://lnkd.in/grbmcR8d #ClimateJustice #Peace #PacificLeadership

ICP's Climate and Peace Convening in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa last week catalyzed profound, intimate, & meaningful community-building and exchanges. In partnership with Taranaki Whānui, ICP hosted a 3-day convening supported by the U.S. Embassy in New Zealand, with goals to strengthen relationships with our Pacific neighbors and to amplify collaboration among Indigenous communities in our shared work of climate action and positive peacebuilding across the Pacific and globally. We are honored to have been able to build and deepen relationships with an amazing group of participants to co-create solutions and collectively envision pathways forward! Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne #ClimateJustice #Peace #Aotearoa #NZ

What deep and uplifting exchanges at the Institute for Climate and Peace gathering last week in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, #Aotearoa #NZ. Incredible rangatahi (youth), tangata whenua (Māori; literally “people of the land”) and #Pacific partners all gathered to share their insights and ancestral wisdom. So much to learn and so much inspiration through the power of #partnership and co-creation to address these massive issues. Next steps are already underway! Mahalo nui loa (thanks) to ICP co-founders Maya Soetoro and Maxine Burkett for your vision of inter-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder v collaboration. Special thanks to Te Āti Awa leader Kara Puketapu-Dentice, Chief Exec Taranaki Whānui ki te Upoho o Te Ika, for helping ground us in place, to Hannah Smith (self described “connector-preneur” - love that term!) for securing Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne as our meeting place. Seeing such extraordinary regeneration of native ecosystems, plants and waterways through collective community vision and leadership was super inspiring! And to the wonderful ICP team so ably led by Exec Dir Naima Te Maile Fifita - Jacqueline Alana and Healani Goo - Mahalo Nui loa for such meaningful convening. Huge thanks to @Sharntelle Cassady for amazing hospitality:) Such gratitude to the many committed community, regional and global leaders who joined us in this spirit to envisage brighter futures we can all help support. Te Aomihia Walker Gretchen Alther MJ Ulrich Obama Foundation Zoe Dzapasi YWCA Victoria University of Wellington Holly Beals Creative HQ Healani Goo Pip Wheaton Fleur Ramsay Blue Ocean Law @Piremina Ngapera @Koromiko Jacobs-Williams Dylan Asafo and more (I don’t have everyone’s contacts unfortunately- if you’re not listed please be in touch!) So many amazing affiliations and community to global networks like Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative to build on. Looking ahead to Kinnerlat and sharing all these Pacific perspectives for global impact with Carine de Meyere Sandrine Dixson-Declève Sophie Lambin 🪁 ASU Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory Peter Schlosser

Happy Holidays from ICP! We are grateful for all of you who have collaborated and shared in our work this year and are looking forward to what the new year brings! We are honored to continue to co-create a future rooted in resilience, equity, and hope. Stay in touch with us by visiting our new website, reading our latest COP29 Reflections blogpost, and signing up for our newsletter via the link in our bio!

Read ICP's Reflections on Climate Justice and Peace at #COP29 featuring an interview with ICP Associate Elsa Barron and ICP's delegation! Click the link in our bio or read it here: https://lnkd.in/g48Z44SX #ClimateJustice #Peace #COP #PhaseOutFossilFuels

This #GivingTuesday, make a contribution to support the ongoing work of our team! As a small organization and passionate team, founded and operated by Indigenous and Pacific-Asia based women, we cannot exist without the contributions of our beloved community! Each donation ICP has received has sustained us over the past 5 years and allowed us to engage in advocacy, youth development, and policy research, all of which has centered on climate justice and positive peacebuilding in Hawai’i, the U.S., Pacific-Asia Region, and beyond. Your contribution will help our Institute achieve its purpose of creating a human-centered body of climate work that re-envisions how we relate to ourselves, each other, and our environment by investing in transformative strategies that center the human experience and support the vision of communities at the frontlines of climate change. ICP is as much an organization as a family and beloved community with shared values and a collective mission. As environmental change accelerates, our work becomes more urgent by the day. We invite you to join us and support us in our mission! https://bit.ly/supportICP #ClimateJustice #Peace #Peacebuilding #Donate #GivingTuesday2024

REPOST ••• @nihiindigenousmedia The historic International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearings on climate change begin today until December 13th. The Pacific-led resolution to seek an advisory opinion on climate change from the ICJ will ask the court to clarify the duties of states to protect the climate system and the rights of present and future generations from climate-induced harms, as well as the legal consequences for states that have caused significant climate harm to the planet and its most vulnerable communities. This advisory opinion will be a critical step towards harnessing the power of international law to catalyze greater accountability and adoption of the actions necessary for true climate justice for communities at the frontlines of the climate crisis. Blue Ocean Law, Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change https://lnkd.in/d9BVnhgk •••••••••••••••••• As the global climate crisis continues to reshape homelands and displace whole villages, frontline communities are raising their voices to fight back. Next week, led by a coalition of groups from the Pacific, the largest climate case in history will be taken to The Hague where the International Court of Justice will determine what obligations all countries owe to communities like Veraibari. Sign the petition for #ClimateJusticeAtThelCJ and join this global movement! Sign now -> https://lnkd.in/gUDTS2bK — Produced by Nihi Indigenous Media in collaboration with the people of Veraibari Directed by Cara Flores Written by Julian Aguon Director of Photography Cheyenne Abel Edited by Frescania Taitague Narrated by Watna Mori Special thanks to International Law Attorneys Watna Mori and Alofipo So'oalo Fleur Ramsay | Conservationists Yolarnie Amepou and Joyce Mavera of Piku Biodiversity Network Support was provided by the Frontline Justice Fund, a fund of Tides Foundation @tidescommunity

As a small organization and passionate team, founded and operated by Indigenous and Pacific-Asia based women, we cannot exist without the contributions of our beloved community. Each donation ICP has received has sustained us over the past 5 years and allowed us to engage in advocacy, youth development, and policy research, all of which has centered on climate justice and positive peacebuilding in Hawai’i, the U.S., Pacific-Asia Region, and beyond. This #GivingTuesday, make a contribution to support the ongoing work of our team! https://bit.ly/supportICP

Our #COP29 Delegate, Elsa Barron speaks with Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Delegate, Aine Beattie about climate justice, youth advocacy, and peace. ICP supports WILPF's goal in advocating for demilitarization as an expression of feminist peace for gender and climate justice at COP29. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - WILPF #COP29Azerbaijan #COP29Baku #feministclimateaction #ClimateAndPeace #ClimateJustice #Peace