Tribal Resilience Across the Country: From Guidebook to Action Webinar Transcript May 22, 2019 Contents I. Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 2 II. Sascha Peterson, Adaptation International .................................................................................... 4 III. Poll I ................................................................................................................................................ 9 IV. Mike Chang, Makah Tribe ............................................................................................................. 10 V. Poll II ............................................................................................................................................. 16 VI. Stefanie Krantz, Nez Perce Tribe .................................................................................................. 17 VII. Poll III ............................................................................................................................................ 24 VIII. Question and Answer Session ...................................................................................................... 25 This transcript reflects the statements made during a live webinar on May 22, 2019. The transcript has been reviewed for accuracy. Any grammatical errors or otherwise unclear passages are true to the statements of the presenters. I. Introduction Slide 1. Tribal Resilience Across the Country: From Guidebook to Action Operator: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Mel and I will be your conference operator for today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Tribal Climate Adaptation Guidebook Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. If you need any assistance during the call, please press star then zero and then an operator will come back on line to assist you. Thank you. I would now like to turn the call over to host today, Ms. Erica Bollerud. Ma'am, the floor is yours. Erica Bollerud: Thank you Mel. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to this webinar on tribal climate resilience. My name is Erica Bollerud and I am the Tribal Coordinator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s State and Local Energy and Environment Program. Slide 2. How to Participate Erica Bollerud: Our programs support state, local, and tribal governments in designing, analyzing and implementing programs that reduce the environmental impacts of their energy use. In our webinars, we always strive to highlight the experience and work of practitioners at the state, local, and tribal levels as much as possible so we can all learn from one another. And today we are honored to be able to highlight the work of several professionals building resilience to climate change in their tribal communities and we're glad you're all able to join us to learn from them. Before we get started, I'd like to turn it over to Sarah Chadwick who’s going to give us some information on how you can participate in the webinar today. Sarah. Sarah Chadwick: Hi, everyone, and thank you so much for joining today's webinar. I'm going to go over a few ways that you can participate in today's webinar. There are three ways to participate. First, participants can answer questions in the question and answer (Q&A) box on the right side of the screen. Let us know who your question is for and we'll moderate all the questions at the end of the webinar. Any questions we don't have time to answer today will be posted on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) site in a few weeks. I quickly like to show one neat feature of the webinar platform we're using. All hyperlinks you see on the slides today should be active. So, feel free to click on those anytime to explore more web content. Slide 3. How to Participate Sarah Chadwick: The second way to participate is through several polling questions. It should be fairly simple to participate, but users on mobile devices or tablets may need to exit full screen mode and tap on the poll icon which looks like a slip of paper dropping into a ballot box. And then the third and final way to participate today is to complete the webinar feedback form. At the end of today's webinar we will share a link to that. However, if you are unable to stay until the end of the webinar you can find this link in the Q&A box at any time. So, again, thank you for joining us and that's all from me. Slide 4. Today’s Agenda 2 epa.gov/statelocalenergy Erica Bollerud: So, this is Erica again. Many of you may be familiar with our State and Local Climate and Energy program and our resources if you participated in previous webinars or accessed our website, but overall I just want to briefly let you know that we're focused on helping state, local, and tribal governments identify, understand, and implement strategies to help them pursue multiple goals through the use of clean energy and whether that's energy efficiency renewable energy or other related technologies. Slide 5. Introduction Slide 6. U.S. EPA’s State and Local Energy and Environment Program Erica Bollerud: And ultimately we want to help you all achieve your air quality and public health goals, strengthen your energy systems, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, save money, and many other benefits. To do this we offer analytical tools data, technical expertise, guidance resources, and other information on our website and you can access all of that at the link on the bottom of the screen. Slide 7. Tribal Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG) Tool Erica Bollerud: Before I turn this over to our panel I did want to highlight a tool our program has developed specifically for tribes to use. It’s our Tribal Greenhouse Gas Emissions Tool. It's a free spreadsheet tool you can access at the link on the slide. You could use this tool to create a community wide greenhouse gas inventory or one for tribal government operations only or both. Ideally you can use it to create an emissions baseline, track trends, measure progress, and inform your mitigation work. Now I want to turn this over to our main event. We have several great speakers for you today though we do have some breaking news. It will be a smaller panel than intended. Eric Chapman at the Lac du Flambeau Tribe of the Lake Superior Chippewa Indians in northern Wisconsin won't be able to join us. Mother Nature has intervened. Unfortunately, his tribal community experienced extensive power outages this morning due to very high winds. So, right now approximately 4,600 residents there are without power including his Natural Resources building which is where he was going to call us from. So, he's doing on the ground work right now coordinating tree and debris cleanup and helping to find hotel rooms for tribal elders. So, he is doing very direct tribal resilience work and our thoughts are with him today. Slide 8. Contact Information Erica Bollerud: But now I want to say a big thanks to kick it off to Sascha Petersen who was instrumental in putting this panel together. 3 epa.gov/statelocalenergy II. Sascha Peterson, Adaptation International Slide 9. Tribal Climate Adaptation Guidebook Erica Bollerud: And I want to give a quick introduction to him. Sascha has been working on climate change for more than 13 years. He was the first managing director of the American Society of Adaptation Professionals and is the founder of Adaptation International. He's worked with both climate scientists and municipal governments and focuses on bridging the gaps between climate change, science, policy, and action. He has direct experience with local governments and tribal communities helping communities ranging from the Upper Snake River Tribes Foundation in Idaho and the Washoe Tribe in California to the City of Boulder and the City of San Antonio build climate resilience. He's worked with a number of tribal communities and multi-tribal organizations to assess climate vulnerability and develop adaptation plans. I'm very glad we can have him in here today to talk with you about the new tribal climate adaptation guidebook. And now I'll turn it over to you, Sascha. Sascha Peterson: Great. Thank you, Erica, and thank you everybody for joining the webinar today. I'm really grateful to be here and have an opportunity to give you a little highlights of the new Tribal Climate Adaptation Guidebook and then also, you know, listen to our other presenters who are leading tribal resilience efforts in their communities. And so just a little background on Adaptation International before I jump in. We're a small mission driven organization and we work exclusively on partnering with communities to build tribal resilience and we've had the opportunity to work with almost 20 tribes or tribal consortiums across the country over the last eight or so years on climate change resilience and so it's a really exciting time to be collaborating in building resilience. There are so many new tools and resources available to support these efforts. And so this new Tribal Climate Adaptation Guidebook is just one of those resources and now have an opportunity to tell you a little bit more about it over the course of the next 10 or 15 minutes. Slide 10. No title Sascha Peterson: The first question that comes to mind probably is what's different about this tribal adaptation guidebook, how is it different from, you know, the guidebooks that was published more than 10 years ago that King County and Local Governments for