In 2022, the Government of Canada announced ambitious targets to conserve 30% of the country’s land and oceans by 2030. For Indigenous communities, this commitment signaled an opportunity to advance community development and reconciliation efforts.
Drawing on local and regional economic and ecological data, this report builds a compelling profile of the local conservation economy in Taloyoak, a Nunavut hamlet in northern Canada, and presents ways to drive socio-economic development in the community.
This includes establishing the business case for investing in the Aviqtuuq Inuit Protected and Conserved Area and reiterating community-identified opportunities and value streams for investing in the local conservation economy.
Related Case Studies
This report synthesizes the most recent evidence available at the nexus between climate change and gender, with a particular focus on identifying intersectional implications of climate change for diverse groups in Canada.
This report explores a series of policy options that can motivate the adoption of environmentally beneficial management practices and increase clean technology deployment across Canada’s agriculture and agri-food sector.
This report identifies, compiles and presents examples of food solutions that are contributing to making Canada’s food system more circular, focusing on examples from particular communities and sets of actions and actors that have not previously been profiled in published resources.
The case study details the Samuel De Champlain Bridge Corridor Project which received the Envision Platinum Award for its Sustainability Performance.