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Strategic Areas for Action

The Government of Nunavut's Climate Change Centre, and comprehensive website, provides a wealth of resources for Nunavummiut about climate change, energy, community-based project investments, permafrost, traditional knowledge and a middle school curriculum for teachers to teach climate change in the Government of Nunavut curriculum and schools.

Take a look at this amazing made-in-Nunavut for Nunavummiut resource!

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In support of the national Climate Change Strategy, Nunavut will prioritize action in the following areas:

Partnership Building

Identify new and innovative partnership opportunities with the federal government, provincial and territorial governments, communities, other organizations, universities, the private sector, and individuals, in order to facilitate a coordinated approach to climate change.
Establish an interdepartmental climate change working group.

Research and Monitoring

Strengthen research and monitoring of impacts in Nunavut through partnerships with communities, the scientific community, organizations and the federal government.

Education and Outreach

Develop and distribute climate change awareness material and tools.
Encourage and support continued transfer of knowledge and skills from elders to youth.
Ensure climate change is incorporated into school curricula.
Increase national and global awareness of the climate change impacts on Nunavut and Inuit culture.

Government Policy and Planning

Integrate climate change considerations into all government decision making.

Ensure climate change considerations are integrated into land use planning and environmental assessments
Identify new economic opportunities associated with climate change.
Work with our partners to ensure climate change impacts are considered in emergency planning.

Ongoing reporting and monitoring of climate change adaptation initiatives and opportunities will be coordinated through an interdepartmental working group on climate change impacts and adaptation.

For a list of searchable project investments funded by the Climate Change Secretariat from 2012-13 to 2019-20, and undertaken collaboration with community and intergovernmental partners, click here.