This series of posters highlights the main impacts of climate change on northern communities, including impacts on buildings, food security, transportation, and drainage and flooding.
The posters identify action items that communities can take, and outline some benefits of those actions.
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Planning for Climate Change – Summary Poster
The purpose of this paper is to provide a preliminary assessment of the potential impacts of climate change on water and wastewater systems in the NWT and recommend actions to increase the capacity of communities to respond and adapt to changes.
This paper explores the current and predicted climactic changes in the NWT, looking specifically at the impact of increasing precipitation and temperature. The paper considers effects such as permafrost thaw, increased water turbidity, and increase in wastewater levels and the impact they may have on drinking water quality and wastewater treatment in communities across the NWT
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This pair of short brochures are some of the earliest documents published by Ecology North on climate change.
Climate Change Call to Action – Adaptation
Adaptation is anything we do to reduce the negative impacts of climate change, and to make the best of the positive effects.
Climate Change Call to Action – Mitigation
Mitigation is anything we do to use less fossil fuel and produce less greenhouse gas pollution.
In 2007, Ecology North and the Dene Nation organized the NWT Climate Change Leadership Summit to inform leaders in the NWT about climate change impacts and to discuss adaptations. Adaptation was defined as learning how to live with the impacts of climate change through adjustment and modifications to lifestyles and in society in general.
The two-day Summit was the first of its kind in the NWT. It brought together more than 100 community, regional, territorial, and federal leaders and resource people from throughout the NWT and elsewhere in Canada and the circumpolar world. the Summit used a variety of media and processes to expose leaders in the NWT to the many facets of climate change. The Summit report summarized the thoughts, concerns, and follow-up needs of leaders in the NWT.
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