New Report Details Indigenous Youth’s Climate Solutions

By  Jeremy Appel  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter  Young Indigenous people are disproportionately impacted by the climate crisis, but their voices are often excluded from discussions around solutions, according to the latest report in Deloitte Canada’s Voices of Indigenous Youth Leaders on Reconciliation series. The report, entitled “Reconciling our relationships to preserve Mother Earth for future generations,” is the fourth volume in the global consulting firm’s series of surveys, which are based on priorities identified by Indigenous youth leaders aged 18 to 29 in interviews over the past two years. Siera Hancharyk, who’s from Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory on Manitoulin Island in B.C. but now lives in Toronto, is one of the youths who was interviewed for the report. She told Alberta Native News that she spoke to the report’s authors for two…

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