Mission
TCC’s Climate Change Collaborative (CCC) aims to mainstream climate considerations across TCC’s departments and the services it provides to villages, and assist villages in mainstreaming climate concerns into their work.
Vision
Climate change is both a construction problem (getting buildings out of harm’s way) and a food security problem for Alaska Native Villages. Yet most Alaska Native Villages remain in the data gathering and planning stages, without the capacity to mainstream climate concerns into community planning and economic development, or to provide safe, sustainable housing to ensure that the future generations in the villages can continue their traditional way of life.
CONTACT US:
907-452-8251 ext. 3451
HOURS
8:00am-5:00pm
Monday-Friday
LOCATION
Chief Peter John Tribal Building
122 1st Ave
Fairbanks, AK 99701
Our Services
Scientific reports over the last 15 years have documented and predicted increased flooding, erosion, wildfires, permafrost thaw, severe weather, and changes to subsistence availability and access in Interior Alaska. This will impact most TCC villages significantly, as houses may be lost. Combined with restrictive laws, increased competition from urban hunters and the opening up of roads, residents will have a harder time meeting their subsistence needs. The Climate Change Program will take a leadership role in getting the villages out of harm’s way and making them more resilient to climate change and overlapping threats to their continued existence.
Funding thru the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is available for villages to obtain financial assistance for climate change mitigation. The hazard mitigation program provides funds for recovery, or mitigation, following disasters and the Building Resilience Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program provides funding every year to minimize damage to disaster threats. BRIC funding requires a community to have a completed five-year outlook, Hazard Mitigation Plan. This is a technical document that describes the context of hazardous mitigation. Several TCC villages have these plans filed with the federal agency.
Tribal Hazard Mitigation Plan Handbook FEMA Handbook (PDF)
TCC Hazard Mitigation Plans
Authorized by the TCC full board of directors Resolution 2019-23 that called for initiating a Climate Change program to advise TCC staff and villages on climate change issues, staff obtained funding from the BIA Resilience Program. With that funding, a committee of tribal members has formed to advance climate change concerns and further guide the development of the Climate change program. Tribal members of the TCC region who are willing and able to commit to participation on the Climate Change Committee/Task Force are welcome to join the deliberations. Contingent of available funding, members are provided a stipend for their time advising TCC staff and assisting with facilitation of climate change adaptation meetings and forums in villages across the region.