Some First Nation leaders in northwestern Ontario are seeing the effects of climate change in their region — including more widespread forest fires and shorter winter roads season — and taking steps to try to adapt.
They spoke to CBC in the wake of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which was released Feb. 28 and details the impact of global warming worldwide.
Temperatures across Ontario’s northwest are projected to rise by two degrees above 2005 levels by 2050, and communities in the westernmost parts of the province could see them climb by close to 2.5 degrees, according to data compiled by