Tristan Pearce, Canada Research Chair and associate professor in UNBC’s Department of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, is leading the multi-university, multi-national research initiative called the Indigenous Peoples Observatory Network that will work with Indigenous Peoples and local communities in 13 different countries.
The project is funded over three years by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s New Frontiers International Joint Initiative for Research in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, and includes contributions from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft , UK Research and Innovation, and the U.S. National Science Foundation.
IPON is anticipated to have local to global impacts. Locally, IPON will generate information needed by communities across the partner regions to develop, and in some cases, revise climate change plans intended to build resilience and reduce vulnerabilities.