Given the extent of global warming, the Arctic is a high-stake area for Canada. The Differing Ways in Which the Effects of Global Warming in the Arctic Impact Canada This hot take therefore highlights some direct impacts of climate change on Canada as both a threat and an opportunity, as well as the impacts arising from the increasing attractiveness of the Arctic (such as through economic opportunities). On the other hand, it also creates many new strategic opportunities, especially for the Arctic countries, as well as those claiming to be “near Arctic” (e.g.
On the one hand, it is an environmental disaster threatening all countries in multiple ways (leading, for example, to fires, floods, epidemics, famines, and migration). The paradox of this region is that these changes are both a threat and an opportunity. The primary consequence of this warming in the region is the melting of the sea ice and the thawing of the permafrost, which sets in motion a number of chain reactions with disastrous consequences. In all cases, and even more so in the case of the Arctic, this poses risks to “health, livelihoods, food security, water supply, human security and economic growth.”
Indeed, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC) indicates the certainty of global warming resulting in a temperature 1.5☌ higher than the pre-industrial era, and the high probability of the temperature being 2☌ higher. As a result, global warming is impacting each Arctic country, including Canada. These regions are said to be warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world they are the climate regulator of the entire globe. One of the peculiarities of global warming is that it becomes stronger as it moves closer to high latitudes, and therefore to the poles of both hemispheres of the planet. It particularly impacts the region very sensitive climate and its hydro and ecological systems. Climate change, due to an increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in Earth’s atmosphere, is affecting all aspects of life in the Arctic.
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