pdf NWT CUMULATIVE IMPACT MONITORING PROGRAM (NWT CIMP) ACTION PLAN 2021-2025 Popular

CIMP conducts, coordinates and funds the collection, analysis and reporting of environmental monitoring and research in the NWT.  SSI is a member of the CIMP steering committee. The plan targets activities based on 10 overriding goals:

Goal 1: Identify and promote cumulative impact monitoring priorities of key decision-makers for caribou, water and fish; 

Goal 2: Identify how NWT CIMP can better consider, support and facilitate Indigenous knowledge in resource management decisions;

Goal 3: Ensure that Indigenous governments and organizations continue to guide the design and implementation of NWT CIMP through the Steering Committee;

Goal 4: Develop and implement a GNWT-Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) Cumulative Impact Framework;

Goal 5:  Conduct and support regional environmental cumulative impact monitoring, using Indigenous and scientific approaches;

Goal 6: Address high priority cumulative impact monitoring and research questions of key decision-makers for caribou, water and fish;

Goal 7: Support and promote Indigenous Knowledge cumulative impact monitoring projects; Goal 8: Report relevant NWT CIMP-supported monitoring and research results directly to co-management boards;

Goal 9: Ensure NWT CIMP monitoring and research results are accessible to communities and the public; and

Goal 10: Facilitate the NWT Environmental Audit every five years in accordance with the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act (MVRMA).