We declare no competing interests. We would like to thank Cathy Vakil for reviewing this article and for her encouragement and support, and Andrew Stevens for reviewing this article. We would also like to thank and acknowledge the work of the Queen's University Indigenous Health Standing Committee for their time and expertise reviewing this article. As settlers on the traditional territories of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Huron-Wendat Peoples, we acknowledge our positionality and privilege within the climate advocacy movement, and are committed to lifelong learning and unlearning. Finally, we would like to thank the entire Queen's Environmental Advocacy in Medicine (EAIM) 2019–2020 and 2020–2021 executive teams for their leadership and help in organising events, as well as the Queen's Aesculapian Society for their support in funding these events.