Report: Climate Risks and Adaptive Capacity in Aboriginal Communities south of 60˚ latitude
From the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources web site
Just released! Climate Risks and Adaptive Capacity in Aboriginal Communities: An Assessment South of 60˚ Latitude
Climate change presents unique consequences and challenges depending on where you live. What do these look like when we talk about Aboriginal communities south of 60º latitude? We're exploring this topic through our three-year Climate Risks and Adaptive Capacity in Aboriginal Communities project.
We're currently in our second year of this project, and are pleased to inform you that we've issued our first year report This report serves to address a gap in the research and understanding of climate change and its effects on Aboriginal peoples in Canada.
This document reports on the first year of a proposed three-year project to understand the potential consequences and challenges of climate change for Aboriginal communities south of 60º latitude. The project focuses on Aboriginal communities that are south of 60º latitude in order to address a gap in the research and understanding of climate change and its effects on Aboriginal peoples in Canada.
It is hoped that this report and subsequent outcomes of the project will help to point the way to how such communities may be better enabled and assisted to cope with both the expected and unexpected challenges that lie ahead associated with climate change impacts.
Please feel free to share your feedback on this report by submitting a comment to this blog post or by contacting us
From Page 11 of the report ...
Drawing on the report completed by CIER (2008) Climate Change Adaptation Assessment and Priorities for First Nations South of 60 Degrees Latitude and the Government of Canada’s From Impacts to Adaptation: Canada in a Changing Climate 2007 (Lemmen et al. 2008), a summary overview of current and predicted climate impacts on Aboriginal communities south of 60º are identified along with the regions they apply to (see Appendix 1 for more details of impacts). This is not intended to provide an in-depth review of climate change but rather to highlight the impacts climate change will have on Aboriginal peoples south of 60º nationally. The headings used are based on all facets of a community (social, culture, economic, environmental) merely to serve as a way to highlight what climate change means for Aboriginal communities.