Arctic Region

The Arctic ( or ) is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean, adjacent seas, and parts of Alaska (United States), Canada, Finland, Greenland (Denmark), Iceland, Norway, Russia, and Sweden. Land within the Arctic region has seasonally varying snow and ice cover, with predominantly treeless permafrost (permanently frozen underground ice) containing tundra. Arctic seas contain seasonal sea ice in many places. The Arctic region is a unique area among Earth's ecosystems. The cultures in the region and the Arctic indigenous peoples have adapted to its cold and extreme conditions. Life …

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Oil Change International · 13 May 2024 English

16 B A N K I N G O N C L I M A T E C H A O S 2024 B A N K I N G …

continue providing finance for “general across the Arctic region advocated for many years that banks adopt corporate


UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues · 26 April 2024 English

The Forum urges the governments of Canada, Denmark and Greenland to follow up and implement the recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples following his country …

Peoples and Member States Arctic 9. In the Arctic Region, Indigenous Peoples constitute the public majority


EU: European Union · 24 April 2024 English

This report looks at the key features of territorial Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) strategies, as they are developing throughout the EU, and examines whether and how the adoption of a …

in many climate change impacts (e.g. in the Arctic region, coastal areas, or river basins) are addressed


EU: European Union · 22 April 2024 English

Disaster Risk Management (DRM) is a complex and interdisciplinary field that requires accurate, reliable visual products and reporting material to support the decision making process. In the disaster cycle there …

Conflict, Health, UCPM Multicountry - Europe Arctic Region | Wildfires 2018-2023 14-Nov Wild fire Multicountry


EC: European Commission · 22 April 2024 English

While focusing on a comprehensive overview of conditions in Europe, the European State of the Climate (ESOTC) also looks at conditions for the Arctic and provides an overview of the …

INDICATORS ABOUT THE REPORT ABOUT US INTRODUCTION Find out more Arctic wildfires Carbon emissions from sub-Arctic and Arctic regions were the second highest on record As Earth’s climate continues to warm, and with the Arctic warming more rapidly


IVL: Swedish Environmental Research Institute · 22 April 2024 Swedish

I en tid av oroligt världsläge, våld och recession finns det risk för att miljö- och hållbarhetsarbetet nedprioriteras, men det leder tveklöst till att problemen enbart skjuts på framtiden och …

929-941. doi:10.1111/ monitoring in the Pan-Arctic region: plastics in water and sediment br. ele.14220


CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 8 April 2024 English

The current focus is on the strategic Russia and China, as well as the implications importance of satellite ground stations in the of the involvement of the North Atlantic Treaty …

that ensure the resilience of space-ground The Arctic region, with its strategic importance infrastructures most ubiquitous dual-use between powers in the Arctic region. Existing space technologies is the American military competition in the region continues, The Arctic region, defined by the Arctic Circle at but the Arctic by the Roscosmos State to US forces in the Arctic region. Additionally, Corporation for Space Activities supremacy. These developments reflect the for the Arctic Region is a clear indicator of the resurgence of the


EU: European Union · 5 April 2024 English

The aim of this report is to investigate the potential for harnessing key features of Transformative Innovation to improve the design and the implementation of Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) strategies, …

(IMO, 2018)7. The rise in temperatures in the Arctic region is close to twice that of other regions8, a


EU: European Union · 2 April 2024 English

1. The Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement (SFPA) between the European Union (EU) and the Government of Greenland and the Government of Denmark, is one of the most financially significant EU …

effective contribution to EU policies for the Arctic region as well as to Greenland’s policies, which include


CSIS: Center for Strategic and International Studies · 1 April 2024 English

WELCOME TO THE SEVENTH EDITION of the Space Threat Assessment by the Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). For the last seven years, CSIS …

Arctic and demonstrating Russia interest in the Arctic region.90 Although the Roscosmos annual budget will


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