Kativik Regional Administration (KRG)
KRG is in charge of the Nunavik territory, which gathers 14 villages. KRG coordinates also research projects on sustainable development, climate change impacts on village infrastructure, on health and food security, ice safety, and coastal erosion. KRG develops collaborations with Universities and the Nunavik Research Center of Makivik.
Makivik Corporation (Makivik)
Makivik, which in Inuktitut means “To Rise Up,” is a fitting name for an organization mandated to protect the rights, interests and financial compensation provided by the 1975 James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, the first comprehensive Inuit land claim in Canada, and the more recent offshore Nunavik Inuit Land Claim Agreement that came into effect in 2008. The Corporation’s distinct mandates ranges from owning and operating large profitable business enterprises and generating jobs; to social economic development, improved housing conditions, to protection of the Inuit language and culture and the natural environment.
The Centre d'études nordiques (CEN)
The CEN is a research centre involving eleven academic institutions in Québec created at Laval University in the seventies. CEN brings together over 200 researchers, students, postdoctoral fellows and professionals from diverse disciplines (biology, geography, geology, engineering, archeology, landscape management). The mission of CEN is to contribute, in close collaboration with local communities, to sustainable development of northern regions by improving our understanding and ability to predict the changes that affect these environments.
The Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology (CEFE)
CEFE is currently the largest French research center in Ecology. The CEFE is performing independent, fundamental scientific research on the dynamics of biodiversity, planetary environmental change, and sustainable development. It works at a great variety of field sites around the world, but developed particular expertise in Mediterranean and tropical ecosystems.
The Institute for Environment and Ecology (INEE) of the french National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
At the crossroads of Human Sciences, of Earth Sciences and Life Sciences, INEE developes an integrative approach to environmental science that seeks to promote global ecology at all time and space scales. INEE aims at proposing action from the research results and contributes to the advancement of knowledge for sustainable development.
Ouranos (website)
Ouranos is a consortium that develops collaborative projects involving a network of 450 researchers, experts, practitioners and policy-makers from different disciplines. Ouranos’ mission is to acquire and develop knowledge on climate change, its impacts and the socioeconomic and environmental vulnerabilities in order to inform policy-makers on climate change and help them identify, evaluate, promote and implement national, regional and local adaptation strategies. It’s the only organization in Canada, and one of the few in the world, that can offer quality services in the areas of climate simulations and analyses; climate scenarios and services; and vulnerabilities, impacts and adaptation––all within one and the same organization. Discover the scientific program "Northern Environment".