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A new, ambitious five-point plan to jump-start the transition to renewable energy – the “low-hanging fruit” of climate action – was announced by UN Secretary-General António Guterres at the launch of WMO’s State of the Global Climate 2021 report.
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Geneva, 18 May 2022 (WMO) - Four key climate change indicators – greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise, ocean heat and ocean acidification – set new records in 2021.
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A discussion on arctic marine conservation cooperation will be held on May 24th, 3 PM GMT by the Arctic Circle and Co-hosted by the WWF Arctic Programme.
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Northern Sustainable Development Forum (the Forum) is a permanent international expert platform for discussing the issues and prospects of sustainable development of the Arctic and the North.
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Ocean bound plastic is plastic waste that is headed toward our oceans. The term “ocean bound plastic” was popularized by Jenna Jambeck, Ph.D., a professor from the University of Georgia. In 2015, she and a team of researchersestimatedthe amount of plastic waste entering the ocean from land.
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It's finally time. The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum is taking place May 22 to 26 in Davos, Switzerland, and Arctic Basecamp will be there. This will be their fourth edition camping in front of the majestic Berghotel Schatzalp to press the urgency of the Arctic crisis.
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The journal Advances in Polar Science is inviting people to submit manuscripts to their special issue entitled “Observations and simulations of Greenland ice sheet melting”.
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World Data System is looking for papers for their session, "AI Reproducibility, Repeatability, and Replicability" at the upcoming SciDataCon, part of International Data Week in Seoul, Korea and online (20-23 June 2022).
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Dr. Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen has been selected as the 2022-2023 Nansen Professor in Arctic studies at the University of Akureyri.
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Every day is Earth Day. But today in particular, it’s an important reminder of the alarm call from the Arctic.
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The clean energy industry has been historically male-dominated with only a handful of women working in clean energy fields. But many hope to open the doors for the next generation to break into cutting-edge industries.
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The Arctic Circle Mission Council on the GlobalArctic invites you to the first-ever Arctic Circle Webcast Session to discuss international cooperation in the Arctic to increase security in the area.
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"Dialogue is more important than ever",says Frode Mellemvik, the director of the High North Center. The High North Dialogue conference will thereforetake place as planned on April 6 and 7.
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EU-PolarNet 2 just published two of its most relevant deliverables:The “Catalogue of National Polar Programmes and Other Large-scale programmes” The “Directory of European Polar Research Funding Programme”.
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The NF Executive Director Vladimir Vasilev was invited to take part in the Yakutian TV show.
‘Prosto vkusno’ (‘Just delicious’) TV show appeared in the Sakha National Broadcast Company’s schedule a couple of years ago, with Petr Tsypandin, a famous entrepreneur and investor, as its host and Dmitry Argunov as a producer. The original idea of the show was to invite hunting and fishing enthusiasts to share their personal experiences and interesting stories and to answer the questions of concern from the republic’s residents while cooking the game.
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