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Yukon State of the Environment Interim Report 1997: "A Focus on Air Quality and Climate Change"
The 1997 interim report provided an examination of the changes that occurred to air quality and climate change since the first Yukon State of the Environment Report in 1995. Specific topics discussed in this 27-page report include global warming, depletion of the ozone layer, long-range atmospheric transport of contaminants, and local issues such as wood-smoke and open burning of solid waste.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Climate Change
- What is the Enhanced Greenhouse Effect?
- Yukon Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- A Focus on Yukon Transportation
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions Within the Yukon Transportation Sector
- Temperature Trends: Are We Getting Warmer?
- Tracking Climate Change With Indicators
- Predicting Impacts of Climate Change
- Climate Change—What Are We Doing About It?
- Commitments to Address Climate Change
- Yukon Energy Saving Programs and Initiatives
- Wind Generated Electricity
- Reducing Transportation Emissions: Public Transit and Active Transportation
3. Ozone Layer Depletion
- Why Is It Happening?
- More UV-B Radiation is Cause for Concern
- Measuring Ozone Layer Thickness and UV-B Radiation
- Ozone Depletion: What Are We Doing About It?
- International Cooperation
- Yukon Ozone Depleting Substance Regulations
4. Atmospheric Transport of Contaminants to the Arctic
- Contaminants found in the Canadian Arctic
- How Do Contaminants Get to the Arctic?
- Contaminants in the Food Chain
- Differences Between Areas, Changes Over Time
- What About Humans?
- What Are We Doing About It?
5. Local Air Pollution Issues
- Whitehorse Urban Air Quality
- Public Perception
- National Air Pollution Surveillance Station in Whitehorse
- Lead
- NO2 and CO: High Events and Seasonal Variation
- Airborne Particles
- Woodsmoke
- Open Burning of Garbage
- Proposed Air Emission Regulations
For more information contact:
Yukon State of the Environment Reporting
Policy and Planning Branch, V-2
Phone: (867) 667-5634
Toll free (in Yukon): (1-800) 661-0408, local 5634
Fax: (867) 393-6213
environmentyukon@gov.yk.ca