Sheila Watt-Cloutier
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About Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Sheila (Siila) Watt-Cloutier is a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, a 2007 Nobel Peace Prize nominee and author of the award-winning book The Right to Be Cold, published in 2015. She is Inuit and one of the most widely respected political figures to emerge from the Arctic. She resides in Kuujjuaq, Quebec.
Sheila Watt-Cloutier calls for humanizing climate issues
Climate change isn’t just about starving polar bears or melting ice, writes Sheila Watt-Cloutier. It is about human rights, human health, food security, poverty, loss of traditional knowledge, and global insecurity as traditional ways of life that are lost to glacier melt, coastal erosion, permafrost melt, rising seas, extreme drought, floods and violent weather.