Additional Tools & Resources

Resource Author/ Proponent
Carbon & Conservation Finance
Carbon Offset Evaluation Template (2021) Ecotrust Canada
Finance for Forests: A Guide to Conservation Finance Options for First Nations Coast Funds
First Nations Forest Carbon Toolkit (2023) B.C. Assembly of First Nations, Ecotrust Canada
Greenhouse Gas Offset Toolkit (updated 2024) Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
Indigenous Carbon Projects Guide (2022) Indigenous Carbon Industry Network (AU)
Infographic: Nature-Based Solutions: Indigenous-led Conservation and Carbon Storage in Canada (2019) Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership (CRP), Anwaatin Inc., Shared Values Solutions, Metcalf Foundation
Nature-based Solutions: A Quick Explainer (2023) Nature for Justice
NbS Benefits Explorer Water Action Hub
Resource Library: Engage with Nature-Based Solutions Engage with Nature-Based Solutions (University of Victoria)
Toolkit: “Towards local action on Nature-based Climate Solutions” Ontario Nature
Measurement & Mapping
An Accessible Guide for Measuring Carbon + Decision-making Tree (2022) Ontario Nature
National Carbon Map (2022) WWF-Canada
Tutorial: Estimating carbon stocks (2022) WWF-Canada
Indigenous Rights & Decolonizing Collaboration
Balancing the Narrative: Communications Guidelines for Indigenous-led Conservation (2023) Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership (CRP)
Beyond Conservation: A Toolkit for Respectful Collaboration with Indigenous Peoples (2023) National Boreal Caribou Knowledge Consortium (NBCKC) – Indigenous Knowledge Circle via the Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership (CRP)
Collective Impact Toolkit (2022) Tamarack Institute
Course: Collaborative Consent Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER)
Course: Natural Asset Management Fundamentals Royal Roads University
Etuaptmumk / Two-Eyed Seeing and Beyond (2020) Reconciling Ways of Knowing
FPIC-360° Tool Equitable Origin and TDi Sustainability
Governance Back: Exploring Indigenous Approaches to Reclaiming Relationships With Land Aimée Craft, Rachel Plotkin, David Suzuki Foundation
Shared Governance Aimée Craft, Rachel Plotkin, David Suzuki Foundation
The Nature Conservancy’s Human Rights Guide for Working with Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
The Practice of FPIC: Insights from the FPIC Solutions Dialogue (2021) RESOLVE
WWF Environmental and Social Safeguards Framework (2019) The World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Other Tools
Climate Change and Biodiversity Toolkit Native Women’s Association of Canada Environmental
Global ICCA (Indigenous Peoples and local communities) Registry UNEP-WCMC
IPCA Knowledge Basket Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership (CRP), IISAAK OLAM Foundation, Indigenous Leadership Initiative
RAD Youth Resources & Opportunities Database (2023) RAD Network
Resource Author/ Proponent
Natural Climate Solutions
Atlantic Canada Blue Carbon Legislative & Policy Review (2022) East Coast Environmental Law, WWF-Canada
Bringing carbon down to earth: Indigenous leadership in nature-based climate solutions (2023) Deloitte
Carbon Rights Brief (2021) Rights and Resources Initiative
Carbon Rights: Legal and Policy Pathways (2022) Leora Gansworth
Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions: A User-friendly Framework for the Verification, Design and Scaling Up of NbS (2020) IUCN
Nature-Based Solutions: Indigenous-led Conservation and Carbon Storage in Canada (2019) Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership (CRP), Anwaatin Inc., Shared Values Solutions, Metcalf Foundation
Rights, Carbon, Caution: Upholding Human Rights Under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (2021) Centre for International Environmental Law (CIEL)
Offsets & Carbon Financing
Advancing Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas through Carbon Financing (2023) Ecotrust Canada
UNDP’s High-Integrity Carbon Markets Initiative (2023) UNDP
Natural Asset Management
Legal Primer: Natural Asset Management by Local Governments in Canada (2023) Natural Assets Initiative (MNAI)
Primer on Natural Asset Management (NAM) in Canada (2017) Natural Assets Initiative (MNAI)
The Journey So Far: Reconciling First Nations’ Worldview and Perspectives with Natural Asset Management (2023) Bear, J., Bill, L., Winnipeg Metropolitan Region, Natural Assets Initiative (MNAI)
National standard:  W218:23 Specifications for natural asset inventories. (2023) CSA Group
Conservation Finance & Case Studies
Cheakamus Community Forest Carbon Project (2021) The Narwhal
Conservation Economies in Nunavut: Aviqtuuq Case Study (2023) Smart Prosperity Institute
Conservation Trust Funds and the Private Sector: Emerging Approaches to Conservation Finance Wolfs Company
Investing in the Future of Ontario’s Greenbelt: A Conservation Finance Blueprint for Southern Ontario (2023) Smart Prosperity Institute
Leveraging Payments for Ecosystem Services: Poplar River First Nation leads the way with Innovative Conservation (2020) International Institute for Sustainable Development
Natural Capital of the Elephant Hill Wildlife Area (2022) Secwepemcul’ecw Restoration and Stewardship Society
Sustaining People and Place: 15 Years of Conservation Finance in the Great Bear Rainforest and Haida Gwaii (2022) Coast Funds
The Deshkan Ziibi Conservation Impact Bond Project (2021) Deshkan Ziibi Conservation Impact Bond Leadership Team, Chippewas of the Thames First Nation, Carolinian Canada
Resource Author/ Proponent
5 Barriers to Entry in Nature-based Carbon Projects (2023) Nature for Justice
Indigenous-led Natural Climate Solutions (2023) Wahkohtowin Development GP. Inc
Indigenous-led Natural Climate Solutions: A Promising Path Forward (2022) Nitah et al., Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership (CRP)
Indigenous-led Nature Based Greenhouse Gas Offsets: One Route Towards Reconciliation in Canada (2020) Nitah and Craig, Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership (CRP)
What’s Needed for More “Shovel-Ready” Carbon Project (2024) Nature for Justice
Resource Author/ Proponent
First Nations National Guardians Network First Nations National Guardians Network
First 30×30 Canada Nature for Justice, IISAAK OLAM Foundation, Nature Focus Development
Nature Investment Hub Nature Investment Hub – Generate Canada
Pacific IPCA Innovation Centre Knowledge Hub IISAAK OLAM Foundation
WWF Blue Carbon CoP WWF-Canada
Westcoast IPCA Support Program (WISP) CICICA, IISAAK OLAM Foundation, T’Sou-ke First Nation