Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2014
Keywords
Climate Policy, Arctic, Canada, Climate Adaptation, Climate Mitigation
Abstract
This paper considers Canada’s climate policy at the federal and territorial levels of government in light of the accelerated impacts and vulnerability of Canada’s Arctic region. The paper considers the level of awareness of current and expected future climate impacts in the Arctic, and the effect of this awareness on climate policy. Climate policy is considered in three broad areas, climate adaptation, climate mitigation and the effect on each jurisdiction’s development path. The paper concludes that there is good awareness of the current and predicted future impacts of climate change in all jurisdictions studied. For reasons explored in the paper, this awareness of the particular vulnerability has not, to date, resulted in climate policy innovation in Canada’s Arctic jurisdictions, and there is no evidence that it has influenced national climate policy in Canada.
Recommended Citation
Meinhard Doelle, "Arctic Climate Governance: Can the Canary in the Coal Mine Lift Canada’s Head Out of the Sand(s)?" in Timothy Stephens and David VanderZwaag, eds, Polar Oceans Governance in An Era of Environmental Change (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014) 213.
Comments
This is a draft chapter. The final version is available in Polar Oceans Governance in An Era of Environmental Change, edited by Timothy Stephens and David VanderZwaag, published in 2014, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781955451.00022
This material cannot be used for any other purpose without further permission of the publisher, and is for private use only.