News & Press Releases

Arctic Portal News Portlet

8 February 2016

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will hold an Expert Meeting on 9-10 February 2016 in Oslo, Norway, to help it strengthen its communications as it starts work on its next cycle of reports.

5 February 2016

Arctic Yearbook 2016

The Arctic Yearbook is calling for abstracts for the 2016 edition.

3 February 2016

ABS

Parties bring together technical capabilities on trans-Arctic shipping

3 February 2016

Pyongyang

North Korea has joined the Svalbard Treaty, signed in 1920, TASS reports, citing local media. By doing so, North Korea received an international legal guarantee for carrying out economic and research activity near the Spitsbergen (Svalbard) archipelago.

3 February 2016

At the Arctic Frontiers

Tromso, Northern Norway, January 24-29, 2016. International organization of governors of northern regions «Northern Forum» has conducted roundtable discussion on theme «Role of Regional Governments and Local Communities in Sustainable Development of the Arctic» during international conference «Arctic Frontiers – 2016» held in Tromso, Norway from 24th to 29th of January 2016.

2 February 2016

Sea ice

Norway, Europe’s biggest gas supplier after Russia, said developing its northernmost reserves in the Arctic hinges on a commitment by the European Union to make the fuel part of its strategy to cut greenhouse-gas emissions.

1 February 2016

Winter Landscape

During the conference "How are you Nordic Region?", topics as current refugee situation and border controls between Denmark and Sweden were also discussed.

29 January 2016

Northern Lights

The 2017 ministerial meeting of the Arctic Council will take place in Fairbanks, Adm. Robert Papp, the U.S. State Department's special representative for the Arctic, announced Monday at Arctic Frontiers in Tromsø.

28 January 2016

Kirkenes with a foggy Varangerfjord

Representatives from Russia´s Federal Security Service (FSB) and the Norwegian Joint Headquarters are meeting in the border town of Kirkenes today (26.01). The meeting is one of two annual working meetings, press officer at the Joint Headquarters Lieutanant Colonel Ivar Moen says to the Independent Barents Observer.

27 January 2016

Arctic Business Forum

The 7th Arctic Business Forum will be held in Rovaniemi, on April 6-7 2016.

26 January 2016

Arctic Energy Summit 2015

The Institute of the North is pleased to announce the release of the 2015 Arctic Energy Summit Executive Summary (here). Included in the final report is a thematic summary, representative review of abstracts, full agenda, link to AES videos, and list of sponsors.

25 January 2016

Greenland Minerals

PRESS RELEASE Greenland Minerals and Energy Limited (‘GMEL’ or ‘the Company’) is pleased to advise of important regulatory developments in Greenland and Denmark that relate to uranium, and the Company’s Kvanefjeld Project, located near the southern tip of Greenland.

22 January 2016

Vatnajokull

The Faculty of Law at the University of Akureyri, Iceland, cordially invites submissions of abstracts for papers to be presented at the 9th Polar Law Symposium. The theme of the symposium is The Role of Law in Polar Governance.

21 January 2016

Charlemagne Building, Brussels

The Arctic Dialogue workshop organised by the European Commission with Arctic Indigenous Peoples will take place tomorrow, 22 January, 2016 at the Charlemagne building in Brussels.

20 January 2016

Ministero Affari Esteri

You can download "Toward an Italian Strategy for the Arctic" here.

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