G-7 Leaders Head to Canada's Melting Arctic Region
The world's biggest industrial democracies are heading to the top of the world for their next meeting to underscore a side effect of climate change.
G-7 leaders will meet tomorrow and Saturday in the Canadian town of Iqaluit -- the territorial capital of Nunavut, whose largely Inuit population has a small measure of self government.
Canadian officials want to emphasize sovereignty over their part of the Arctic. Because of melting ice sheets, several nations are making land claims in the region -- a bid for access to newly exposed minerals, petroleum and polar shipping routes.
Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says his country wants to send a diplomatic message that it will protect its rights to those resources.
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