Yukon
The Government of Yukon Climate Change Strategy sets out the government's role and key goals for its response to climate change. The Climate Change Strategy includes broad goals targeted at enhancing the awareness and understanding of climate change impacts; taking measures to reduce the levels of greenhouse gas emissions in Yukon; building environmental, social and economic systems that are able to adapt to climate change impacts; and positioning Yukon as a northern leader for applied climate change research and innovation.
The guiding principles of the Yukon Climate Change Strategy include: (1) Concentrate on Opportunities and Challenges: focus actions by concentrating efforts on challenges and opportunities inherent to our rural northern jurisdiction; (2) Build on Strengths and Successes: build on Yukon's demonstrated strengths and successes in the areas of public education and outreach, northern impacts and adaptations research, energy efficient building science, integrated household energy solutions and applied northern renewable energy research. Yukon will continue to support the investigation of climate change impacts through scientific and traditional means including the research and monitoring of water resources, habitat, fisheries and wildlife; (3) Work in Partnership: pursue partnerships with other governments, institutions and the private sector to leverage opportunities and address common challenges with respect to climate change.
The Government of Yukon has developed specific priority strategies to meet the following four goals of the Yukon Climate Change Strategy: (1) Enhance awareness and understanding of climate change impacts on Yukon's environment, people and economy; (2) Reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Yukon through efficiency improvements in the short term and additional measures related to infrastructure replacement in the longer term; (3) Build Yukon environmental, social and economic systems able to adapt to climate change impacts and positioned to take advantage of opportunities presented by climate change; and (4) Support efforts to establish Yukon as a northern leader for applied climate change research and innovation.
