An Overview of the Arctic Circle Eight Countries Own Land in the Arctic Circle It's Home to Arctic Foxes Murmansk, Russia, Is the Biggest City There's an Arctic Council The Arctic Circle Doesn't Plunge Into Total Darkness The Sun Appears for Months The Antarctic Circle Is Way Colder You C...
Nevertheless, the 1990s saw the start of several cooperative initiatives, from the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) in 1990 to the Arctic Council in 1996. In more recent years, the Asian countries' governments and other Asian actors have grown increasingly interested in the Arctic ...
Founders of the Arctic Council count eight countries, including Iceland even though its coastline is predominantly under the Polar Circle. When the Arctic coastal states met in Ilulissat in 2008 on the other hand, Iceland, Sweden and Finland were not invited. The meeting had as an objective the...
The Arctic Council’s Working Group on the Elimination of Pollution in the Arctic (ASAR) in collaboration with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation and the northern territories of the country has conducted an inventory of outdated pesticides. As a result, ...
After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent halt in cooperation with the other Arctic states, Russia has turned east and south for new partners. At the same time, Russia is messaging actively that the Arctic Council without Russia i
Finland and Sweden only play a minor role in the Council, which is dominated by large countries like Canada and Russia. The European Union is taking measures to increase its influence. The European Council asked the EU Commission to make proposals by the end of 2015. ...
We analyze this emerging body of work with a focus on identifying overarching trends (time, countries studied, scale of analysis, specific populations). We also map the themes and topics considered in this literature with a focus on highlighting topics that are prominent and those that are ...
Arctic black carbon emissions from ships: Patterns, trends, and policy options: Bryan Comer, PhD, Marine Program Lead, International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) The presentations will be followed by an intervention by Árni Finnsson from the Iceland Nature Conservatio...
Their close multinational relationship includes membership in NATO and the Arctic Council, the latter being “the pre-eminent intergovernmental forum for circumpolar co-operation.” Article content A group of Danish soldiers and the Danish flag stand on Hans Island between Greenland and Canada in this...
The analysis of convergence - Divergence in the development of innovative and technological processes in the countries of the Arctic Council 2018, International Conference on Information Networking Black Carbon Sources Constrained by Observations in the Russian High Arctic 2017, Environmental Science and Tec...