by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | May 24, 2007 | 2007, Press Releases
UN Chronicle 24/05/2007 Duane Smith The United Nations Environment Programme characterizes the circumpolar Arctic as the worlds climate change barometer. The 160,000 Inuit who live in northern Canada, Greenland, Alaska, and Chukotka in Russia have for almost 20 years...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Feb 8, 2007 | 2007, Press Releases
Thursday, February 8, 2007, Ottawa, Ontario Mary Simon, President of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK), and Duane Smith President of Inuit Circumpolar Council (Canada), today urged the Standing Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Development to recommend changes...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Feb 2, 2007 | 2007, Press Releases
Friday February 2, 2007 – Ottawa, Ontario The Inuit Circumpolar Council-Canada (ICC) and Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK), today responded to the conclusion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes 4th Assessment, Working Group 1 (IPCC-WG1 Report) in...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Nov 29, 2006 | 2006, Press Releases
Canadian Inuit leader states: “A dark day for aboriginal Canadians and all indigenous peoples worldwide” Ottawa, 29 November 2006 The Inuit of Canada today condemned the split vote by the United Nations General Assembly (GA) to postpone consideration of...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Nov 21, 2006 | 2006, Press Releases
Inuvik – Tuesday, 21 November 2006 After international climate change negotiations wound up last week, and as ministers from around the world returned to their respective countries, Duane Smith, the President of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (Canada), expressed his...