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As President of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, an international organization that has existed for fifteen years, I speak on behalf of the Inuit nation living in the Arctic regions of four circumpolar countries - Russia, Alaska, U.S.A., Canada and Greenland. First I want to thank you for this opportunity to speak, and to thank the Sierra Club for the tremendous support they have provided to get me to this meeting. My thanks also to the Climate Action Network for their support. It is an honour to speak to this important Ministerial meeting on climate change. Global climate change is another external factor, like transboundary pollutants, that is changing our Arctic homelands with potentially disastrous consequences.