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Polar leader issues climate change plea

Climate change in the Arctic Circle is forcing Inuits to abandon their homeland and move south, a visiting polar leader will tell the Scottish Government today.

Aqqaluk Lyng, vice-chairman of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC), is to lobby Climate Change Secretary Stewart Stevenson on the plight of northern peoples during a meeting at Holyrood.