A group representing Inuit peoples in the northern Artic region has filed a landmark human rights complaint against the United States before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The Inuit Circumpolar Conference says the US role as the world’s number one carbon polluter is helping to foster global warming that is destroying their habitat. A spokesman for the group said: “For Inuit, warming is likely to disrupt or even destroy their hunting and food-sharing culture as reduced sea ice causes the animals on which they depend to decline, become less accessible, and possibly become extinct. The complaint comes as over 100 countries continue to meet in Montreal at the United Nations Climate Change Conference. The US is leading calls to block a global accord on mandatory emissions standards.