Carving Out Climate Testimony: Inuit Youth, Wellness and Environmental Stewardship in Tuktoyaktuk, NWT

In Tuktoyaktuk, climate change impacts are acute, compounding and widespread from melting permafrost, coastal erosion, changing sea ice and weather patterns. Carving out Climate Testimony: Inuit Youth, Wellness & Environmental Stewardship is a CINUK-funded project that supports Inuit youth leaders to enhance wellness and environmental stewardship in their own community of Tuktoyaktuk in the Northwest Territories. The CINUK team comprises settler and Inuit colleagues, from artists to academics across the social and physical sciences and also includes community leaders. The team aims to understand how a changing climate is understood by Inuvialuit youth residents – in their own creative terms.

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