2025 ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY TOOLKIT: Impacts and Solutions for Latino Communities
This toolkit was created to show the importance of environmental policy to Latinos across the U.S., from the states to the territories. Hispanic Access Foundation created the first version of this toolkit in 2019, to change that narrative and bring Latino viewpoints and priorities to the forefront of environmental policy. As time goes on, it only becomes clearer that each of us has a stake in this moment of converging climate, nature, and public health emergencies –- and frontline communities most of all.
2025 LATINO ADVOCACY TOOLKIT: Helping Latinos Become Advocates and Flex Their Power
This toolkit is designed to help individuals and advocacy groups effectively engage in policy advocacy at all levels of government. It offers clear guidance on how to communicate with legislators, use digital tools, and make a meaningful impact in your community.
Exploring Latinos’ Role in U.S. Fisheries: Insights, Challenges, and Recommendations
In the face of climate and environmental crises, the ocean and fisheries sectors are facing challenges that must be addressed since fish are crucial for food security, livelihoods, biodiversity and more. Latinos and Hispanics are the largest ethnic minority in the United States - and growing. It is necessary to understand our role as Latinos in the fisheries sector and the fisheries supply chain in the United States and Puerto Rico, a topic which has quite little research dedicated to it. This paper explores the role of Latinos and Hispanics in the commercial, recreational, and subsistence fishing sectors, in an effort to understand where Latinos are engaged in this space and what challenges are faced.
Cultural Erosion: The Climate Threat to Latino Heritage Report
Latinos in the United States are facing challenges to their health, safety, food security, livelihoods, and cultural legacy as a result of the severity of climate change's consequences. The impacts of climate change on cultural heritage, and consequently on the mental health, traditional knowledge, and identity of U.S. Latinos, are, nevertheless, often ignored.
Agua Corriente: The Latino Connection to Waterways Report
Rivers and streams, the lifeblood of our planet, have sustained human civilization and ecosystems throughout history. These meandering currents, majestic flows, and interconnected networks shape the very essence of our natural world, including where and how we live. This report delves into the significance of rivers, their role in the water cycle, and the vital link between healthy rivers and the cultures that are sustained by them.
WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT TOOLKIT 2023: Latino Considerations
Our nation’s greenhouse gas emissions and resulting climate change are leading to higher temperatures, record-setting heat waves, and drier and more arid conditions in the West. These conditions matched with underfunded forest management, outdated land use policies and practices, and more people living in fire-prone areas has led to catastrophic wildfires that affect more people. Since 2000, an average of 73,200 wildfires burned an average of 6.9 million acres, a figure which has nearly doubled the average annual acreage burned in the 1990s (3.3 million acres). In 2017 alone, wildfires burned 10 million acres. In addition, a new study has found that approximately 85% of wildfires are caused by human activity and one in three houses in the US resides in the wildland urban interface (approximately 44 million homes).
Protecting Our Ocean: Toolkit for Achieving Federal Ocean and Coastal Protections
To help achieve marine and coastal resilience, ecosystem health, sustainable economies, and inclusive and accurate narratives of coastal communities, this toolkit provides an overview of some major federal designations of lands and waters in the U.S. and its territories that can help protect the environmental, cultural, and economic resources within and around them. Latino communities and allies can advocate for these designations in a culturally relevant and accessible way.
2023 ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY TOOLKIT: Impacts and Solutions for Latino Communities
This toolkit was created to show the importance of environmental policy to Latinos across the U.S., from the states to the territories. Latino communities across the United States are experiencing disproportionate health and economic impacts of poor air quality, extreme heat and aridification, wildfires, drought, storms, and other severe effects of the climate crisis, in addition to the alarming loss of nature throughout the country. Yet, the Latino community's overwhelming support for nature and climate action can show our leaders the way forward in ensuring a just transition to an economy that protects our climate, homes, health, and jobs.
10 Ways Access to Nature Can Bolster Biodiversity, Communities, and Climate Report
This paper shows access to nature is a powerful lens through which to enact biodiversity, climate, and equity gains, through a variety of potential investments in nature conservation and restoration—including in the most urbanized and degraded locations.
All over the world, leaders must redouble efforts in the built and natural environment to better suit the needs of the biosphere and the people who rely on it. Access to nature is the lens through which we can make these investments in an equitable manner. When nature access for all is attained, the result is better-off communities, better-off ecosystems and a more stable climate, with more buy-in necessary to maintain the improvements.
Making Castner Range a National Monument Would Help Nature-Deprived Communities
Over the past half-century, the majority Latino and low-income community in El Paso, Texas, has advocated for protecting the historically and ecologically vital lands of Castner Range. Now, the community is calling on President Joe Biden to designate the area as a national monument.
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