{"id":1413,"date":"2007-02-02T14:22:28","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T19:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2026-02-09T14:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:56:18","slug":"inuit-cite-ipcc-results-as-further-proof-of-human-impacts-contributing-to-climate-change-inuit-call-on-canada-to-recognize-arctic-in-foreign-policy-and-commit-resources-towards-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/press-releases\/inuit-cite-ipcc-results-as-further-proof-of-human-impacts-contributing-to-climate-change-inuit-call-on-canada-to-recognize-arctic-in-foreign-policy-and-commit-resources-towards-adaptation\/","title":{"rendered":"Inuit Cite IPCC Results as Further Proof of Human Impacts Contributing to Climate Change: Inuit Call on Canada to Recognize Arctic in Foreign Policy and Commit Resources Towards Adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"Friday February 2, 2007 - Ottawa, Ontario<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe Inuit Circumpolar Council-Canada (ICC) and Inuit Tapiriit\u00a0Kanatami (ITK), today responded to the conclusion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes\u00a04th Assessment, Working Group 1 (IPCC-WG1 Report) in concluding that human activities are the cause\u00a0of climate change.\r\n\r\nThe good news is that this highly credible report is now available to the world community, and\r\nCanada's Environment Minister John Baird has acknowledged the report in Paris, and has stated it is time\r\nto address climate change policy,\" said ITK President Mary Simon. The bad news is that the report\r\nconfirms that climate change is enormous in scope, verifiable, and requires unprecedented international\r\nintervention and collaboration. Inuit have long known that the Arctic climate has been changing and that\r\nthe rate of change is accelerating. The Arctic is accepted as a barometer of worldwide climate change.\"\r\nThe IPCC-WG1 Report reinforces, and expands upon, the stark conclusions made almost three\r\nyears ago in the report of the multi-national Arctic Council entitled Arctic Climate Impact Assessment\r\n(ACIA Report). When released in November 2004, its conclusions shocked many people, and gained\r\nglobal attention. The impacts of climate change on the Arctic will have repercussions for the rest of the\r\nplanet from the small island states to continental Africa.\r\n\r\nDuane Smith, President of ICC-Canada added that, Canada must recognize the geopolitical\r\nimportance of the Arctic in climate change, develop and pursue a strong northern foreign policy. If we are\r\nto see real change in the Arctic, China, Russia, India and the United States, as well as, Canada and other\r\nnations, must reduce their CO2 emissions. It is noteworthy that China has recently applied for\r\nmembership in the Arctic Council. Now is the time to work multi-laterally for the global good. Canada can\r\nbe a world leader by making the Arctic and Inuit a central feature of comprehensive climate change\r\nefforts. Inuit want to partner with Canada and work towards the next United Nations Framework\r\nConvention on Climate Change meeting to regain our place as a global leader,\" Smith added.\r\n\r\nInuit and all Canadians are facing serious decisions regarding the changing environment. As the\r\nworld awaits the conclusions of the Impact and Adaptations Report of IPCC Working Group 2, due in\r\nApril, ICC and ITK call upon the Government of Canada to learn from the previous attempt at a National\r\nAdaptation Framework and commit the appropriate resources and effort required to leave a legacy for\r\nthe future.\r\n\r\n- 30 -\r\n\r\nSource:\r\nCorinne Gray\r\nExecutive Director\r\nICC Canada\r\n\r\nStephen Hendrie\r\nCommunications Director\r\nInuit Tapiriit Kanatami\r\n\r\nPh: 613.563.2642 Cell: 613.277.3178\r\ncgray@inuitcircumpolar.com<\/a>\u00a0hendrie@itk.ca<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-38","category-press-releases"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987515286,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions\/987515286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}