Yukon government climate change action plan

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Report 2015, is a comprehensive review of the Government Change (IPCC) released its 5th assessment of Yukon’s efforts to address the challenges and report in 2014, a comprehensive assessment of opportunities of climate change over the six years since current scientific, technical and socio-economic the original Climate Change Action Plan was released. [...] Many of the actions set out in the climate change report complement the goals of the energy strategy, and vice versa. [...] MONITORING The Department of Environment leads four projects that involve long term monitoring – a crucial aspect of understanding the impacts of climate change: • examining changes in the diversity and abundance of bats in the Government of Yukon’s campgrounds and territorial parks, • monitoring the impact of climate change on snowshoe hare survival, • monitoring collared pika populations in Tomb [...] Developed through the Northern Climate ExChange and reviewed in partnership with the Council of Yukon First Nations and the Climate Change Secretariat, the report will provide objective measures of Yukon’s climate, along with high-level conclusions of current research. [...] Launched Yukon Youth Outside the Box Forums (2007 to 2010), aimed at in April 2015, its goals are to enhance the developing youth leadership, capacity of northerners to understand and adapt to climate change, and to foster • An annual Youth Climate Change Conversations event, led since innovation and the development of best 2011 by the Climate Change Secretariat’s summer interns, to practices in c