Do you know anything about Greenland, its environment, its people & culture, its governance or its resources? Do you know why Greenland is in the World News these days?
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Why are the world leaders interested in Greenland?
The Arctic region is believed to host as much as 30% of the world´s unused resources, including rare earth minerals. Greenland is home to a very large portion of these resources still to be utilized. Greenland is therefore a very strategically and geopolitically important country.
Greenland´s location in an Arctic context has also grown in importance given the geopolitical developments and their Arctic consequences.
Last but not least Greenland is very important in a global context in relation to climate change as the melting of the ice cap will in some way affect all the world´s inhabitants.
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