Nisga`a house dialogue

The ice is melting and the forests burn. This is part of everyone's daily life, but

some are more affected than others. Riddu Riđđu wants to focus on the greatest

challenge in our time.

 
It is not a day without media making us aware of global and more domestic, local consequences of climate change. Be it a "wetter, warmer and wilder" weather, the sea ice melting of the Arctic Ocean, the increased shipping traffic, new available areas for petroleum exploration and fish stocks migrating north. The impacts on many indigenous areas and settlements are particularly evident. For the consequences of melting ice and sea level rise that threaten low-lying coastal areas, more extreme weather, reduction of permafrost, forest fires and desertification, are immense for many of the world's indigenous peoples.