Inuit resilience in the face of climate change

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Inuvialuit Noël Cockney watches his village, Tuktoyaktuk, located on the edge of the Arctic Ocean and at the forefront of climate change.

Marie-Laure Josselin / RFI

By: Marie-Laure Josselin

21 min

This is the global barometer of climate change, over the past 100 years, the Arctic has experienced an average warming of 1.5 degrees, sometimes up to 3 degrees in parts of Canada.

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The 160,000 Inuit who live there are witnesses to the change in their environment.

In the Canadian Far North, the Elders, like scientists, increasingly note the real impacts of this warming ...

Head north to the Northwest Territories, Canada, high above the Arctic Circle.

Inuit Resilience in the Face of Climate Change, a major report by Marie-Laure Josselin.

(Replay of June 8, 2020)

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