Inuit Demand US Climate Action At Reykjavik Summit - Reuters

REYKJAVIK - "Inuit hunters threatened by an accelerating thaw of the Arctic want to amend a U.N. convention to put pressure on Washington to do more to slow global warming, an Inuit leader has said.

New proof the Arctic was warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet meant the region should be included in the U.N. climate convention as an area vulnerable to global warming, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC), said on Thursday. A listing to the 1992 U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, she said, could aid an Inuit campaign to spur Washington to take stronger steps against global warming after President George W. Bush pulled out in 2001 of the convention's main plan of action, the 127-nation Kyoto protocol.

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The ICC, representing about 155,000 people in Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Russia, says lifestyles that include hunting seal, walrus and polar bear were threatened. It says Washington, the world's top polluter, was mainly responsible. She said indigenous people successfully lobbied for a reference to the Arctic to be added to another U.N. treaty banning the use of a "dirty dozen" chemicals after traces of the poisons turned up in Inuit breast milk or polar bear fat.

An eight-nation study issued on Monday said the Arctic Ocean could be almost ice-free by the summer of 2100."

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http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/28133/story.htm

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