
Coastal First Nations, B.C. renew commitment to work together on coastal sustainability, tourism, economic development
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Backgrounders
- CFN signatory Nations to the agreement include Wuikinuxv, Heiltsuk, Kitasoo Xai’xais, Nuxalk, Gitga’at, Metlakatla, Old Massett, Skidegate, and Council of the Haida Nation. Their collective territories span the central and north coast of the province.
- On Dec. 10, 2009, B.C. and CFN member Nations entered into the 2009 reconciliation protocol, which focused on collaborative approaches to land and resource management and implementing economic initiatives, as a foundation for broader reconciliation over time. The reconciliation protocol was amended and renewed several times – most recently in 2016.
- In 2020, CFN and B.C. signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to work together on a longer-term vision that built on the successes of the reconciliation protocol to pursue a conservation-based regional economy through a diverse set of initiatives to promote financial self-reliance.
- The 2024 agreement is the culmination of the work set out under the 2020 MOU. The agreement:
- renews and updates the shared decision-making framework that forms the basis of the 2009 protocol, and enhances its operational framework for efficient implementation of integrated land and resource management;
- renews and updates the primary fiscal arrangements in the 2009 protocol, including the Great Bear Rainforest carbon offsets sharing framework;
- builds on the offset sharing framework with a new initiative to develop a comprehensive fiscal framework for self-governance, stewardship and economic development;
- establishes a new set of initiatives to support coastal communities to take advantage of opportunities in clean energy;
- establishes a process for the 2020 MOU’s commitment to explore potential joint or consent-based decision-making for inclusion in a future negotiated agreement, with the identification of aquatic plant harvesting authorizations as an area of interest;
- establishes a new set of initiatives to support coastal communities to respond and adapt to climate impacts; and
- builds on successful revenue-sharing initiatives under the 2009 protocol and its extending agreements with new economic development initiatives focused on revitalizing Indigenous and market economies.
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