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Links to Other Projects:
"SNOWCHANGE" - CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE NORTH
Snowchange website: http://www.snowchange.org/
Snowchange in Sakha (April 2007)
The Snowchange Cooperative in close cooperation with the Northern Forum, the Northern Forum Academy, Institute of the Indigenous Peoples of the North (Russian Academy of Sciences) and other stakeholders took part in Snowchange 2007 Workshop on Traditions of the North, which was held in Neriungri, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russian Federation, April 2nd to 8th, 2007.
The primary aims of Snowchange 2007 was to train during the four day event experts and local peoples to document traditional knowledge and observations made in their own communities to better under Arctic changes, such as climatic and weather related events.
This training enables the local experts and communities to become full members in the Snowchange network started in 2000, develop techniques of traditional knowledge assessments, and to further advance Indigenous revitalisation of culture and participation in the scientific frameworks of Arctic change and offer possibilities of adapting and mitigating the ecosystem and climate-related changes which are already taking place in the Arctic.
For more information, contact tero.mustonen@snowchange.org.
Snowchange in Alaska (September 2006)
Over 100 representatives from indigenous nations from Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Russian Federation and New Zealand converged at the end of September to Anchorage, Alaska, to discuss climate change, its impact on environment, cultures, languages, spirituality, subsistence economies and other aspects of indigenous life. The workshop also encompassed issues linked to adaptation and mitigation of climate changes, how to convey to non-Northern regions the seriousness of the problem and ways to address the scientific community.
The workshop was very successful in that it brought together peoples from many cultures, and demonstrated the seriousness of the problem. It also helped many participants who feel isolated and helpless in the face of changes they cannot control, understand that this is a common issue in the North and that by working together, they can find solutions.
The organizers of the workshop published a final report in 2006.
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