Project Snapshot
Through workshops, training and fieldwork, this project took place in three communities in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region of Canada's Western Arctic—Inuvik, Aklavik and Tuktoyaktuk. The objective of the project was to collect and share local observations and adaptive strategies on climate change. It built on the earlier work of IISD's Inuit Observations on Climate Change project and tied in with the work of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami's Regional Contaminant Coordinators.
From January 25 to February 5, 2002, team members convened community workshops in Inuvik, Aklavik and Tuktoyaktuk. The workshops used a range of participatory exercises to document climate change observations, effects, adaptations and indicators, and to facilitate the exchange of information between Northern and Southern experts. Through the workshops, training was also provided to four regional representatives from the Inuvialuit Settlement Region to enable them to replicate the methodology in additional communities.
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) subsequently undertook workshops in eight other communities located across Northern Canada: Arctic Bay, Holman Island, Ivuijvik, Kangiqsujuaq, Kugaaruk, Paulatuk, Puvirnituq and Repulse Bay. Findings from these workshops were published by ITK in 2005 as Unikkaaqatigiit: Putting a Human Face on Climate Change.
Project findings were also presented as follows in 2002:
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in part as a chapter in the book The Earth is Faster Now: Indigenous Observations of Arctic Environmental Change;
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the human health aspects were presented at a National Aboriginal Health Organization conference in Ottawa; and
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a presentation on methods and preliminary results at the Snowchange conference in Tampere, Finland.
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