Learning Network Trainings, Tools and Reports

The Alaska Tribal Resilience Learning Network Resource Page is a single location to access previous Learning Network Information Session recordings. Here, we highlight several tools, references, and links that are useful for Alaska tribes and Indigenous communities working on climate change adaptation.

Tools and Reports

Climate Considerations in Planning Northern Climate Reports The Status of Tribes and Climate Change Report Tribal Climate Adaptation Guidebook SNAP Tools

Climate Considerations in Planning

"Integrating Climate Considerations into Planning: A Quick Reference Guide" was developed by the AK TRLN team in 2025 to provide a starting place for Tribes and communities wanting to plan for climate change impacts.

This reference guide includes helpful links for creating a focussed climate adaptation plan as well as potential references and considerations if including climate concerns into existing planning efforts.

Northern Climate Reports

The Status of Tribes and Climate Change Report

The Status of Tribes and Climate Change (STACC) Report seeks to uplift and honor the voices of Indigenous peoples across the U.S. to increase understanding of Tribal lifeways, cultures, and worldviews, the climate change impacts Tribes are experiencing, the solutions they areimplementing, and ways that all of us can support Tribes in adapting to our changing world.

This report was convened status of tribes and climate change report cover with mountains and a lake

by the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP) Tribes and Climate Change Program and written by the STACC Working Group.

Tribal Climate Adaptation Guidebook

The Tribal Climate Adaptation Guidebook was developed in 2018 by the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute at Oregon State University. This guidebook builds on previous and ongoing climate-related work in tribal communities, and provides a framework for climate change adaptation planning in the context of existing tribal priorities and the unique issues facing Indigenous communities. View the online version.

SNAP Tools

The AK CASC works closely with the Scenarios Network for Alaska and Arctic Planning (SNAP) to develop web tools that make climate data easily accessible and understandable. These videos will help step you through some common topics and questions that Tribal planners ask when engaging with the SNAP tools.

Video 1 - Turning your planning questions into data questions

Video 2 - Knowing when the tools can't answer your planning questions

Relevant links

BIA Tribal Resilience Program

Institute of Tribal Environmental Professionals

Adapt Alaska

UA Climate Toolbox

Tribal Climate Change Guide - University of Oregon

Past Learning Network Trainings

The Alaska Tribal Resilience Learning Network hosts a variety of workshops and events that provide support for Alaska Tribes, Leadership, and Indigenous communities as they respond and adapt to the current and future impacts of climate change. Read an overview of these trainings and download the training reports to learn more about the objectives and content of each event. For information on upcoming trainings and opportunities, see our events calendar.

Climate Information for Adaptation Planning

April 8, 2025

This interactive workshop was designed to help you find, interpret, and apply climate projections and science in planning, proposal writing and decision making that is relevant to your community, village corporation lands, or municipality.

Land and Climate Work Session

May 3, 2024

The AK CASC and Native American Fish & Wildlife hosted this training in Bethel in collaboration with Bureau of Indian Affairs Realty Division and Native Movement with financial support from the First Nations Development Institute.

Looking Forward, Looking Back: Strengthening Resilience Today

February 15, 2024

The goal of this training series was to invite inter-organizational community teams to learn from each other, and strengthen their existing climate adaptation priorities through sharing climate science, adaptation tools and strategies, and technical support.

Tribal Climate Adaptation 101

October 4, 2022

The purpose of the training was to support Tribal Climate Resilience Coordinators and Environmental Professionals that are beginning or new to climate change adaptation planning.

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Tribal Wellness in Climate Adaptation

August 11, 2021

This training, hosted by the AK TRLN, aimed to support climate adaptation planning in Alaska Indigenous communities through collaborative discussions with Tribes, applying local cultural knowledge and practices, and utilizing local expertise on trauma and wellness.

Building Resilience Today

May 12, 2020

The Looking Forward, Looking Back: Building Resilience Today workshop series provided Alaska Tribal communities who are experiencing climate change with the information, support, and climate science to plan and adapt for the future.