What is the name of your organization?
A WISDOM KEEPERS DELEGATION
What is the name of your solution?
Bioregional Climate Hubs
Provide a one-line summary or tagline for your solution.
Synchronized regional hubs aligning global climate solutions through Indigenous leadership.
In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
Spokane, WA, USA
In what country is your solution team headquartered?
United States
What type of organization is your solution team?
Nonprofit
Film your elevator pitch.
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What specific problem are you solving?
The Wisdom Keepers Delegation addresses the global failure to include Indigenous leadership and ecological knowledge in climate adaptation. Despite stewarding 80% of the planet’s biodiversity, Indigenous Peoples receive less than 1% of global climate finance and are systematically excluded from decision-making. In the regions we work—India, South Africa, and the U.S.—communities face worsening drought, food insecurity, and ecological collapse. In India, nearly 40% of agricultural land is degraded; in South Africa, over 60% of youth are unemployed; in the U.S., 1 in 3 Native Americans live in poverty. These crises are exacerbated by colonial governance, the disconnection between global climate policy and local action, and the absence of place-based, regenerative solutions. Our hybrid site model directly responds by creating land-based hubs that integrate traditional ecological knowledge with contemporary practices, proving that Indigenous-led solutions are effective, scalable, and essential. Each site is locally rooted yet globally synchronized, offering a unified approach to regeneration, justice, and climate resilience.
What is your solution?
The Wisdom Keepers Delegation has spent years advancing contemporary climate policy within the United Nations, advocating for Indigenous-led solutions rooted in ancestral knowledge. But through this work, it has become clear: governments and global institutions are failing to respond with the urgency or integrity this moment demands. As ecosystems collapse and climate impacts accelerate, we can no longer wait for top-down solutions. Our hybrid site model is a direct response—returning land to Indigenous communities and creating a global network of bioregional hubs that protect and regenerate the Earth’s living systems. These sites embody the sacred responsibility to steward the land, water, and air through traditional ecological knowledge and community-based governance. They are not only models of resilience, but also acts of resistance against the systems that continue to exploit, extract, and delay. We are moving beyond advocacy—into protection. The time to safeguard the biome is now, and it must be led by those who have always lived in relationship with it.
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
Our solution serves frontline Indigenous communities disproportionately impacted by climate change yet excluded from decision-making and denied direct access to climate finance. These communities carry generations of ecological knowledge but face food insecurity, land degradation, and cultural erasure—while protecting ecosystems vital to the planet.
The hybrid site model returns land to Indigenous stewards and supports them in leading bioregional climate solutions. Each site is a protective space—physically, culturally, and spiritually—where communities heal, organize, and restore sacred relationships with land. These hubs serve as living classrooms, teaching local communities how to live in alignment with our platform of ancestral wisdom, ecological balance, and collective responsibility.
They protect and regenerate our biomes—not just for today, but for future generations—offering local food systems, clean water, regenerative housing, and intergenerational knowledge transfer. Through a globally synchronized network, these sites create a unified, Indigenous-led blueprint for climate justice, cultural resurgence, and long-term planetary protection.
