Coastal Indigenous and Traditional communities are starting to see changes to their lives from climate change, whether this is from species range changes or displacement from land changes. For many of these communities, the ability to adequately adapt to these changes is limited by the governance structures they are required to live within, which differ from their customary practices and culture. In November 2019, a group of Indigenous and Traditional Peoples, attended the Future Seas 2030 workshop and discussed the consequences of climate change, the biggest barriers for their communities, and barriers for using traditional knowledge in order to contribute towards a more sustainable future that in the end will benefit all of earth’s people. The aim of this workshop was to highlight and give a voice to the various backgrounds and real-life situations impacting on some of the world’s Indigenous and Traditional communities whose connection with the oceans and coasts have been disrupted. This paper presents these issues of oppression, colonisation, language and agency, making it difficult for these groups to contribute to the current management of oceans and coasts, and asks scientists and practitioners in this space to be allies and enable the needed shift to earth’s guardians taking a leading role in nurturing her for our future.

沿海土著和传统社区开始看到气候变化给他们的生活带来了变化，无论是物种范围变化还是土地变化造成的流离失所。对于这些社区中的许多人来说，充分适应这些变化的能力受到他们所居住的治理结构的限制，这与他们的习惯做法和文化不同。2019 年 11 月，一群原住民和传统民族参加了 2030 年未来海洋研讨会，并讨论了气候变化的后果、他们社区面临的最大障碍以及使用传统知识为更可持续的未来做出贡献的障碍。最终将使地球上的所有人民受益。本次研讨会的目的是突出和表达影响世界上一些土著和传统社区的各种背景和现实生活状况，这些社区与海洋和海岸的联系已经中断。本文介绍了这些压迫、殖民、语言和代理问题，使这些群体难以为当前的海洋和海岸管理做出贡献，并要求该领域的科学家和从业者成为盟友，并实现向地球守护者的必要转变在为我们的未来培养她方面发挥主导作用。