Arctic food chain and accumulate in the bodies of Inuit, many of whom continue to subsist on local country food. In 2002, she was elected International Chair of ICC, a position she would hold until 2006. Most recently, her work has emphasised the human face of the impacts of global climate change in the Arctic. On 7 December 2005, based on the findings of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, which projects that Inuit hunting culture may not survive the loss of sea ice and other changes projected over the coming decades, she launched the world's first international legal action on climate change: a petition, along with 62 Inuit hunters and Elders from communities across Canada and Alaska, to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, alleging that unchecked emissions of greenhouse gases from the United States have violated Inuit cultural and environmental human rights as guaranteed by the 1948 American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man. Although the IACHR decided against hearing her petition, the Commission invited Watt-Cloutier to testify with her international legal team (including lawyers from Earthjustice and the Center for International Environmental Law) at their first hearing on climate change and human rights on 1 March 2007. Publications Her book The Right to Be Cold, about the effects of climate change on Inuit communities, was published by Allen Lane - Penguin Random House in 2015. Her memoir The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet (2015) was short-listed for Canada Reads, where it was championed by musician Chantal Kreviazuk. Activist Naomi Klein reviewed the books for the Globe and Mail, calling it "courageous and revelatory". "The Inuit Journey Towards a POPs-Free World." Northern Lights Against POPs: Combating Toxic Threats in the Arctic. Ed. David Leonard Downie and Terry Fenge. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. 256–267. "Don’t Abandon the Arctic to Climate Change." The Globe and Mail 24 May 2006: A19. "ICC responds to last week’s editorial." Nunatsiaq News 9 June 2006: Opinion. "Nunavut must think big, not small, on polar bears." Nunatsiaq News 19 January 2007: Opinion. "The Strength to Go Forward." CBC: This I Believe 23 May 2007. "Canada's Way." The Ottawa Citizen 29 August 2007. "Ozone treaty offers insurance against climate change." The Globe and Mail 6 September 2007: A19. Awards and honours All cities in Canada unless noted. 2002 Global Environment Award, World