In keeping with the “what really matters” theme, Creative Solutions for a New World Climate and the Arts Series explores how much Cold Matters in terms of the roles in which snow, ice and permafrost play in the stabilization of the global climate system.

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United Nations University Global Water Future's Chair and award-winning author, Bob Sandford, shares how winter snowfall extent, cover and duration impact water resources in Canada, and how important the Arctic is as a thermostat for weather not just in Canada but in the entire Northern Hemisphere.

Dr. Thomas Axworthy, one of the architects of The Arctic Council, a high-level intergovernmental forum that addresses issues faced by the Arctic governments and the Indigenous people of the Arctic, outlines concerns associated with accelerating permafrost thaw and its impact on northern peoples and cultures in Canada and throughout the Arctic.

Joining in this webinar is scientist and artist Dr. Louise Arnal, who together with her artist colleagues, Jennifer Baltzer, an expert on permafrost thaw, and Rhian Brynjolson, fuse art and science to portray changing climate circumstances in the Arctic in both Russia and Canada and make scientific research findings more understandable outside the climate science community.

In closing, there is a brief follow-on discussion on how the theme Truth Matters can be applied to the challenges posed by accelerating permafrost thaw and other climate threats led by Washington, DC lawyer, Mace Rosenstein and how we can use all the ways we have of knowing and caring to create the post-COVID world we want.