Circumpolar Conference

• Inuit Circumpolar Conference V. Bush Administration: Why The Arctic Peoples Claim The United States' Role In Climate Change Has Violated Their Fundamental Human Rights And Threatens Their Very Existence

Introduction. Scientific background. Basis for the petition to the Interamerican commission. Potential for future litigation.

• Sustainable Development Law & Policy
• Nbr. V-2, May 2005

• Inuit Circumpolar Conference to Announce Human Rights Claim Over Climate Change at Montreal Un Climate Conference

News Advisory: -- THE RIGHT TO BE COLD:

• U.S. Newswire
• December 02, 2005

• Acting On the Weather

Climate change is as international as Arctic people joining with tropical islanders to protect their homelands from the effects of greenhouse gases and as local as Maine maple syrup makers testifying before the Legislature that their season is starting much earlier, likely to their detriment. Officials from the state Department of Environmental Protection today will recognize both the local and global effects of climate change when they announce 55 steps Maine can take as part of its agreement with other Northeastern states and Maritime Canada to substantially reduce the harmful pollutants that are causing the Earth's temperature to rise. The Arctic-Tropics proposal comes from the Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC), which sees similarities in the risks to low-lying tropical islands from...

• Bangor Daily News
• December 03, 2004

• The Right to Be Cold: Inuit Circumpolar Conference to Announce Human Rights Claim Over Climate Change at Montreal Un Climate Conf.

News Advisory: WHAT: Sheila Watt-Cloutier, elected chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference to announce Human Rights Claim over Climate Change

• U.S. Newswire
• December 06, 2005

• Indigenous Groups Hold Climate Summit

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Indigenous people from around the world are gathering in Anchorage this week for a conference on climate change, a subject participants say disproportionately affects them though they share relatively little responsibility for it. Patricia Cochran, chairwoman of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, said the United Nations-affiliated conference intends to provide "a unified voice, to be able to have more influence over the political and other decisions that are being made that impact our communities.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• April 20, 2009

• Inuit Petition Inter-American Commission On Human Rights to Oppose Climate Change Caused by the United States of America

MONTREAL, Canada, Dec. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Sheila Watt- Cloutier, the elected Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC), today submitted a petition to the Washington DC-based Inter- American Commission on Human Rights seeking relief from violations of the human rights of Inuit resulting from global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions from the United States of America. The Commission, which was created in 1959 by the Organization of American States, has a long and distinguished history of protecting human rights, particularly those of indigenous peoples. The full text of the petition is available at http:// www.inuitcircumpolar.com/ . Watt-Cloutier spoke at a side event at the 11th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. She was joined by...

• U.S. Newswire
• December 07, 2005

• U.S. Said to Suppress Report On Warming ; Arctic Leader Takes Complaint to Senate

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is trying to bury an international report that contains recommendations on addressing the dramatic impacts of global warming on the people of the Arctic, an Arctic leader told a Senate panel Wednesday. State Department officials are blocking the release of one of two reports that were to be presented to government ministers from eight Arctic nations at a meeting on Nov. 9 in Reykjavik, Iceland, Sheila Watt-Cloutier of northern Quebec told the Senate Commerce Committee. She is chairwoman of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, which represents native people of the region.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• September 16, 2004

• Legal techniques for dealing with scientific uncertainty in environmental law.

... protocols (as well as decisions by Conferences of the Parties (COP), discussed below) embody the ... filed in December 2006 by the Inuit Circumpolar Conference against the United States before the In...

• Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
• Vol. 43 Nbr. 2, March 2010

• From Baffin Island to New Orleans.

... Watt-Cloutier, president of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, testified before the Senate Commerce C...

• The Progressive
• Vol. 69 Nbr. 12, December 2005

• Inuit Leader Sheila Watt-Cloutier Announces Intention to File Humanright Claim Against U.S. For Its Dangerous Greenhouse Gas Emissions

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Dec. 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Sheila Watt- Cloutier, elected chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC), announced tonight that the ICC will soon petition the Inter- American Commission on Human Rights, seeking a declaration that emissions of greenhouse gases that are destroying the Inuit way of life are a violation of human rights. Watt-Cloutier made the announcement at a CIEL-sponsored event at the 10th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, in Buenos Aires. Klaus Toepfer, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), shared the panel with Watt-Cloutier. Toepfer praised Watt-Cloutier for having, "ably articulated the concerns of your people in the face of the devastating effects of climate change ...

• U.S. Newswire
• December 15, 2004