It was made possible thanks to the support of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, McGill University’s Faculty of Science and the Trottier Institute for Science and Public Policy, with help from the Association francophone pour le savoir (Acfas) and the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design at the University of Toronto. [...] Our third key policy orientation, Integrate the oil and gas production sector in climate policies, calls for a change in the parameters of environmental impact studies for any project related to transport, oil exploration or fossil fuel exploitation to include full accounting for the impact on climate, the costs of inaction and the need to decarbonize our economy and society. [...] Its main accomplishments in this area include a community tour to promote the implementation of greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction measures, the publication of a report documenting the impacts of climate change on 11 First Nations1, the collaborative development of climate change adaptation plans with seven First Nations, and the organization of the first Forum on climate change adaptation by First Na [...] However, despite the fact that the AFNQL shares many of the preoccupations First Nations, a distinct jurisdiction underlined in the position paper Acting on Climate Change: Solutions from Canadian First Nations must be recognized as a distinct Scholars, it declined the invitation as its role jurisdiction in the debate on the adoption of is to gather in assembly the Chiefs of 43 First new climate p [...] According to the the recognition, by all jurisdictions, of the Supreme Court of Canada, the Aboriginal Title Aboriginal Title and Aboriginal and Treaty gives rise to rights comparable to those of Rights, and the creation of collaboration ownership rights.
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