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The goals of POLAR’s 2020-2025 Science and our country’s role in the fight against global
Technology Program are to: warming?
a. Improve understanding of dynamic northern DS: POLAR aims to help strengthen Canada’s
ecosystems in the context of rapid change. leadership on addressing Arctic issues, particularly
b. Advance sensible energy, technology and those that are most important to Northern and
infrastructure solutions for the North. Indigenous Canadians, especially in the context
c. Increase understanding of the connections of climate change: how Arctic ecosystems are
between northern community wellness and changing and the effects on the wildlife species that
environmental health. represent a significant part of the diet in northern
communities, and how changing ice, permafrost,
In April 2018, POLAR launched a public Call for Input and snow will affect communities.
to inform its 2020-25 Science and Technology (S&T)
Framework and broader agency-wide Strategic Over the last five years, POLAR has been working
Plan, which will help guide POLAR’s future funding, in partnership with a wide variety of collaborators
programs and activities. to understand the current state of the Arctic
environment in the area surrounding the CHARS
BEC: Please talk to me about research on climate campus and has begun documenting how
change done at the CHARS campus? What are some ecosystems there are changing. POLAR aims to
of your recent findings and how do they influence make this new knowledge accessible to decision-
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