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AES early registration is now open

The early registration for Arctic Energy Summit is now open and available on the website.

The Conference will take place in Akureyri, Iceland. Located in North Iceland and just 60 kilometers below the Arctic Circle, Akureryri is the largest city in Iceland outside of the Reykjavík capital area with a population of 18,000 people.

It is the center of trade and services in northern Iceland and is filled with culture.

The town is notable for having the northernmost botanical garderns, swimming facilities, an 18-hole golf course and great hiking trails. There are many natural wonders including waterfalls, volcanic areas and canyons.

The 2013 Arctic Energy Summit is a multi-disciplinary event expected to draw several hundred industry officials, scientists, academics, policy makers, energy professionals and community leaders together to collaborate and share leading approaches on Arctic energy issues.

The 2013 Summit will address energy extraction, production and transmission in the Arctic as it relates to three thematic areas and key questions.

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Arctic Energy Summit

June 12, 2013
Climate Change in Northern Territories

The Conference: “Climate Change in Northern Territories will take place in Akureyri, northern Iceland 22^nd – 23^rd of August 2013.

The registration to the ESPON/ENECON and NRF event is now available. Early registration fee will be available until the 10^th of July 2013.

Bookings for accommodation are done through the registration form and information on the hotels can be found on the registration web page. Please note that accommodation can only be guaranteed through registration until the 10^th of July. After this conference guests might have to make reservations on their own.

In questions regarding travel and accommodation please contact Akureyri Travel at aktravel@aktravel.is or call +354 4600 600.

Practical information on registration and travelling in Iceland can be found here.

Click here to download the program of the conference “Climate Change in Northern Territories”.

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NRF

May 21, 2013
French Arctic Initiative conference

The French Arctic Initiative’s inaugural symposium entitled “Arctic: the Major Scientific Issues” will be held June 3-5, 2013 at College de France, in Paris. It will be followed, on June 6, 2013, by a day of reflection on future prospects for the Arctic and, in the evening, public event at l’Institut Océanographique.

The objectives of the symposium are: to address the major scientific issues and recent developments with regard to the Arctic, to mobilize the scientific community, from multiple disciplines, around these issues and to highlight the most promising avenues for improving our understanding of this complex system.

This symposium will lead to the production of a white paper on future research priorities confronting the French scientific community.

The organizers of the symposium hope to attract the attention of the best researchers in the country, including those who have never worked on scientific problems in the Arctic.

It is important to note that researchers with leading-edge expertise that is not necessarily focused on a particular environment may contribute to the development of innovative research in the Arctic. We will address the Arctic in a broad context in terms of discipline and temporal (past, present future) or spatial (polar, global) dimension.

The symposium is organized in the framework of a partnership between the French Arctic Initiative and la Chaire de l’Evolution du Climat et de l’Océan du Collège de France.

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French Arctic Initiative

May 13, 2013
Invitation to Iceland
Marine and Coastal Culture Tourism in Northern Territories – Akureyri Iceland – 18-19^th June

A conference that will focus on the fishing environment in northern territories will take place in the University of Akureyri, 18-19 June 2013. The conference is organised by the Stefansson Arctic Institute in collaboration with the University of Akureyri Research Centre, NORA, the Icelandic Tourism Research Centre, Norwegian Seafood Centre and the Icelandic Lighthouse Society.

Marine and coastal culture tourism is growing in popularity in various ways. Some tourists want to learn about life in coastal villages, experience nature and tranquility as well as the wilderness. Others want to experience the excitement of driving charter boats, diving, surfing, go speedboating or hiring a boat and try their luck at fishing. Then there are those who want to sail from port to port and country to country on board gigantic cruise ships.

How does this fit in with cultural heritage, everyday life, social development, self sufficiency, fishing quotas and environmental policies of the Nordic nations? How can the Nordic nations collaborate in this area? Do these diverse aspects of tourism have collaborative opportunities? These challenges will be discussed at the conference where further questions will be pondered through group work and perhaps more answers and collaborative possibilites found.

The main workshop themes will be how we meet the challenges of:
- The development of marine and coastal culture tourism in Norway, Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
- Opportunities and threats, self sufficiency and environment – the effect of marine and coastal culture tourism and the image of the Northern Territories.
- In what areas can we collaborate?
There will also be excursions where tourism related businesses and museums will be visited.

See the conference program.

The conference is open to all but registration is needed for planning purposes.

Registration deadline: 10 May 2013

Conference fee: ISK 12000 / DKK 545

Registration & hotel bookings (limited vacancy): conference@aktravel.is, tel. +354 4600600

For further information contact Sigurbjörg Árnadóttir: sibba@svs.is.

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Stefansson Arctic Institute
April 5, 2013
NRF calls for papers!

The global climate change is by scientists predicted to have great environmental and socio-economic impacts in the whole Arctic as well as in northern Europe. There will be direct and indirect impacts on nature and on communities as well as uncertainties. In addition, global warming is predicted to accelerate off-shore oil and gas drilling in the Northern icy seas and open a new (global) sailing route from the North Atlantic Ocean through the Arctic Ocean to the eastern parts of the globe.

Northern Research Forum in cooperation with the ESPON-ENECON project organizes international conference: „Climate Change in Northern Territories” that will take place in Akureyri 22 – 23 of August 2013.

The event will bring early career researchers together for an open dialogue on issues of Northern and global relevance, to work with senior mentors, and to develop international and interdisciplinary collaborations.

All NRF Young Researchers (YR) are required to participate in the Open Assembly from August 21st – 23rd. Each YR will make a presentation and provide a written final version (word document) of the presentation to the NRF for publication in the conference proceedings.

Each YR is required to electronically submit his/her paper by the 15th of April 2013 as well as publishing permissions for the NRF if selected as a YR (each selected YR will be provided the opportunity to finalize their papers after the Assembly if they prefer a different version be published in the conference proceedings). Each YR will write and orally present session summaries and actively participate in the assembly open dialogue and the post assembly evaluation.

Please, access the NRF website for more information and to register for the event. The registration deadline is 1st of April.

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Northern Research Forum

March 19, 2013
In the Spirit of Rovaniemi Process

Call for Papers and Conference announcement – Conference ‘In the Spirit of Rovaniemi Process’ 2-4 December 2013, Rovaniemi, Finland

The City of Rovaniemi and Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland would like to invite scholars and practitioners interested in presenting in the Conference: ”In the Spirit of Rovaniemi Process” to submit abstracts to one of the scientific sessions. In addition, the papers should address at least one of the three cross-cutting themes. PhD students are welcome to present a poster referring to one of the sessions and addressing cross-cutting themes.

The deadline for posters and papers is 5^th of May 2013. All participants interested in presenting at the conference shall send their abstracts (max. 250 words) to: rovaniemi.process@ulapland.fi .

”In the Spirit of Rovaniemi Process: Arctic Cities, Global Processes and Local Realities” is an international conference that will take place in Rovaniemi, northern Finland, 2 – 4 December 2013.

The conference is organized jointly by the City of Rovaniemi and the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland, Finland with the scientific lead Professor Timo Koivurova from the Arctic Centre from the University of Lapland.

The goal of the conference is to present the latest research scientific knowledge about the global processes as they become local realities. Even if the Conference is scientific in orientation, it aims to bridge science and knowledge into action by bringing top scholars to share their research results, and to organize joint discussion with the leaders of the Arctic Cities. Conference includes special plenary panel on “Arctic Cities in the Spirit of Rovaniemi Process”.

Click here, to read more about the event. Access the Conference website to register for the event or submit the abstract.

HMM

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In the Spirit of Rovaniemi Process

March 4, 2013
Science Section begins today!

After 2 days of policy related discussions, the Arctic Frontiers conference that is being held in Tromso, Norway, opens the science section.

This part will address the issues of security, energy and interstate relations in the Arctic. An overall aim is to identify conditions for continued stability in light of new developments in the region.

A warming Arctic with less ice may involve opportunities in terms of economic activity and increased interstate cooperation, but it may also present Arctic stakeholders with new challenges in terms of how best to meet their interests and at the same time interact with other stakeholders through mutually beneficiary relations.

Arctic Frontiers is organised as an independent network and a leading meeting place for pan-arctic issues. The network was established in 2006 and later extended. The science section that start today will end on Friday, 25^th of January.

HMM

January 23, 2013
Electronic Memories in St. Petersburg

St. Petersburg in Russia celebrates Arctic Days in December where the highlight is the conference “Electronic Memory of the Arctic – cultural communications of the circumpolar world”.

The Conference has been organized by the joint effort of the National Library of Russia (NLR), Nonprofit partnership Center for the Preservation of Cultural and Historical Heritage “Electronic Memory of the Arctic” (NPP EMA), Center of International and Inter-regional Collaboration and is an important step towards creation of the “International Scientific Multifunctional Arctic Center in Salekhard.”

December 12-15^th are the Arctic Days, under support of the Arctic Council, RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs, RF Ministry of Culture and the Russian Geographical Society.

The major event is the First international scientific and practical conference “Electronic Memory of the Arctic” taking place now on the premises of the National Library of Russia.

The event is marked by the presence of the leading establishments of the world-wide Arctic community, including Arctic Council Secretariat, University of the Arctic (Norway-Russia), Arcticportal.org (Iceland), Arctic Centre (University of Lapland), The Academy of Finland, Foundation for Siberian Cultures, Scott Polar Research Institute (University of Cambridge), as well as of the representatives of the national libraries and archives of the Arctic Council countries, inter alia The National Library of Norway, The Sámi Archives (Norway), The Yukon Archives (Canada) and others.

The Russian scientific community is to be represented by more than 20 institutions, among which there are The Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, The Russian State Historical Archives, The Institute of the Peoples of the North (Herzen University), MGU, StPGU and other large specialised organisations.

The Arctic days will see many interesting presentations and working sessions, click here to see the conference program.

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Website of EMA

Conference program

Press release Electronic Memory of the Arctic

Press release Arctic Days

December 13, 2012
Next step in response to climate change

At the UN Climate Change Conference in Doha, Qatar (COP18/CMP8), governments have taken the next essential step in the global response to climate change.

Countries have successfully launched a new commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol, agreed a firm timetable to adopt a universal climate agreement by 2015 and agreed a path to raise necessary ambition to respond to climate change. They also endorsed the completion of new institutions and agreed ways and means to deliver scaled-up climate finance and technology to developing countries.

“Doha has opened up a new gateway to bigger ambition and to greater action – the Doha Climate Gateway. Qatar is proud to have been able to bring governments here to achieve this historic task. I thank all governments and ministers for their work to achieve this success.

Now governments must move quickly through the Doha Climate Gateway to push forward with the solutions to climate change,” said COP President Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah.

The Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Christiana Figueres, called on countries to swiftly implement what has been agreed in Doha so that the world can stay below the internationally agreed maximum two degrees Celsius temperature rise.

“I congratulate the Qatar Presidency for managing a complex and challenging conference. Now, there is much work to do. Doha is another step in the right direction, but we still have a long road ahead. The door to stay below two degrees remains barely open. The science shows it, the data proves it,” said Ms Figueres.

“The UN Climate Change negotiations must now focus on the concrete ways and means to accelerate action and ambition. The world has the money and technology to stay below two degrees. After Doha, it is a matter of scale, speed, determination and sticking to the timetable,” she said.

In Doha, governments also successfully concluded work under the Convention that began in Bali in 2007 and ensured that remaining elements of this work will be continued under the UN Climate Change process.

The next major UN Climate Change Conference – COP19/ CMP9 – will take place in Warsaw, Poland, at the end of 2013.

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COP18

December 10, 2012
Perspectives on public Arctic policies
The first International Conference on Public Policy will be held in France in the summer of 2013. It is calling for abstracts for this interesting conference entitled Perspectives on public policies in the Arctic region.

The conference website states that “developments in the Arctic have mostly been studied through defense studies, international relations, geopolitics, and to a lesser extent, economics. Public policies of Arctic states in the High North have attracted far less attention, with the exception of indigenous peoples rights.”
The conference will run from the 26^th of June until the 28^th in Grenoble, France.
The conference will see a panel analyzing and discussing these topics:
1. To what extent climate change and the economic prospects in the Arctic have changed public policies
2. To what extent public policies are limiting or motivating economic development, through legislation, infrastructure development, direct or indirect subsidization, particularly in the mining and hydrocarbon sector and in transport (shipping)
3. The capacity to act by the elected representatives at the local level, and to analyze to what extent citizens and communities are engaged in the development of public policies
4. How conflicting interests between economic sectors are considered (e.g. tourism versus mining, petroleum activities versus fisheries and traditional subsistence)
5. How social cohesion between various categories of the population (indigenous/non indigenous, permanent/transient) appears as an issue in current public policies
6. If public policies are shaped by regional frameworks of cooperation and international agreements and norms
7. How Arctic policy making can be seen as an imaginary and symbolic construction.
The abstracts are to be delivered by the 1^st of February 2013. Comparative approaches of public policies in the Arctic are particularly welcome. To propose a paper an abstract of approximately 300 word should be sent directly to the chair of the panel, Cécile Pelaudeix (e-mail: cecile.pelaudeix@sciencespo-lyon.fr).

Website of the conference.
December 4, 2012