Nunavut communities must work towards building their capacity to withstand impacts from climate change. The Climate Change Secretariat promotes and supports knowledge sharing of community-based climate change adaptation solutions.Nunavut communities must work towards building their capacity to withstand impacts from climate change. The Climate Change Secretariat promotes and supports knowledge sharing of community-based climate change adaptation solutions.

This research looks at the causes of search and rescue (SAR) and more broadly unintentional injuries on the land in Nunavut. We focus on SAR because of the health and cultural importance to being on the land. Further, SAR costs the Government of Nunavut roughly $850,000 annually and in 2015 represented over 450 individuals requiring assistance.

In 2005, Sheila Watt-Cloutier and 62 Inuit elders and hunters from Canada and the United States joined forces with environmental lawyers in the US and submitted a petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

The Nunavut Climate Change Partnership (NCCP) was a collaborative partnership between the Government of Nunavut, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, and Natural Reosurces Canada to build capacity for community-level adaptation planning.

The Nunavut Climate Change Partnership (NCCP) was formed in 2008. Entitled "Atuliqtuq: Action and Adaptation in Nunavut" the Partnership’s three main themes are:

• To build capacity for climate change adaptation planning within the Government of Nunavut and communities

This is an updated summary of the previous project posted on December 2, 2014

This course informs government staff of climate change impacts and how to incorporate climate change into deision-making across all government sectors.

This project is investigating how Inuit women in Iqaluit are experiencing climate change within the context of greater socio-economic change. 

ArcticNet brings together scientists and managers with their partners from Inuit organizations, northern communities, federal and provincial agencies and the private sector to study the impacts of climate change in the coastal Canadian Arctic.

What do your elders and community leaders in Nunavut have to say about changing climate conditions over the years? Do you have images of your region that show the effects of climate change? Submit a community report and add your contribution to our store of knowledge.