Canada to join Arctic Council climate change study
CTV Monday 14th February, 2011
OTTAWA -; Canada and its Arctic allies will launch a major study this spring to help northern nations cope with the irreversible effects of climate change. The speedy melting of polar ice is the driving force behind the Arctic Council's decision to announce the wide-ranging study. The project, called the Arctic Change Assessment, will be disclosed when Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon and his seven counterparts meet this May in Greenland. Canada will play a key role because it will end its two-year stint in the rotating chairmanship of the council in 2015 when the study is to be completed. "In 2015, we definitely should come up with a substantial amount of advice that we will present to the ministers, and that they hopefully will act upon," Karsten Klepsvik, Norway's senior Arc...
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