Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change

Siila Watt-Cloutier's recent keynote lecture on climate change, human rights and indigenous communities is now available.

www.isuma.tv/hi/en/ikcc/voices/siila-watt-cloutier-keynote-at-health-canadas-pan-arctic-results-workshop

Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change screened last weekend in Winnipeg at the "Reel Green Film Festival".

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Follow this link to view the online article dated February 4th.

www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2011/02/03/man-professor-films-academics.html

"Filmed with the visual grace typical of Igloolik Isuma’s previous films, Qapirangajuq presents elders talking about climate change"

www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/987678inuit_elders_speak_through_climate_change_doc/

5-point Action Letter signed by ICC Chairman Aqqaluk Lunge. For more information about ICC visit inuitcircumpolar.com. To watch the film by Zacharias Kunuk and Ian J. Mauro, Inuit Knowledeg and Climate Change, visit www.isuma.tv/ikcc.

This statement was released by Inuit leaders at the UN's COP-16 international climate change meetings in Cancun. Please download to read.

"Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change" will be screened nationally and internationally over the next month.

On December 5th, the film will be presented at the international UN COP-16 climate change meetings, and will be followed by discussion with partner organizations, including The Council of Canadians, The Indigenous Environmental Network, and others.

David Suzuki and his foundation have been strong supporters of the "Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change" project.

"The estimate came in a presentation on Wednesday before the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission in Timmins, Ont., as the federal regulator investigates how to close the digital gap between urban and rural areas." Globe&Mail ht… Read more

Globe and Mail

CBC's The Current

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Inuit knowledge provides scientific insight into climate change