Arctic impacts: The human cost of melting ice

Last episode of Cities 1.5, we took you into the Arctic region through the perspectives of a world-renowned scientist and seasoned canoeist and river guide. This time, we’re staying in that region - but we’re speaking to an expert who hails from the circumpolar North about the connections between climate change and human rights. Because Indigenous communities have been calling attention to warming temperatures in the Arctic, and the resulting impacts on their ways of life, for decades already.

Image Credit: Right Livelihood Award 2015 Stockholm 12 / 2015, Wolfgang Schmidt

Featured guest:
Sheila-Watt-Cloutier is an icon in the climate advocacy world, as well as an award-winning Inuk activist and celebrated author. Her book, The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet is a national bestseller that deals with the effects of the climate crisis on Inuit communities. She has been a political representative for Inuit at the regional, national, and international levels, most recently as International Chair for the Inuit Circumpolar Council. Sheila was instrumental in the global negotiations that led to the 2001 Stockholm Convention banning the generation and use of persistent organic pollutants that contaminate the Arctic food web.

Links
Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy
Arctic Impacts: Knowledge from the North - Cities 1.5 podcast
Upirngasaq (Arctic Spring) by Sheila Watt-Cloutier in Granta
Book review: The Right to be Cold, by Sheila Watt-Cloutier - The Earthbound Report
Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC): United Voice of the Arctic 
Petition To The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Seeking Relief From
Violations Resulting from Global Warming Caused By Acts and Omissions of the United States
Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA)
Human rights violated by Swiss inaction on climate, ECHR rules in landmark case - The

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