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Over the past few years, Akureyri, a municipality located in Northern Iceland with about 18.000 inhabitants, has being establishing itself as the place for Arctic cooperation in Iceland. Now, "Arctic Akureyri" has a new website gathering all relevant information and tomake the variety of Arctic related institutions and companies located in Akureyri visible and accessible.
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For the first time since 1997, the 12th Northern Forum General Assembly was held in Yakutsk (November 4-6, 2015).
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While COP 21 is inaugurating a new phase of commitment on climate, the Ocean Climate Platform disclosed the content of its advocacy at the November 12th 2015 press release- in the presence of Ségolène Royal, French Minister of Ecology- in order for ocean and coastal zones related issues to be gradually taken into consideration via specific measures and included in the various axes of negotiation.
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Yesterday, Secretary of State John Kerry, and current chair of the Arctic Council, delivered a speech on climate change and national security at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA.
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The first EU-PolarNet newsletter, with up to date news on European polar research, science policy, stakeholder interaction, upcoming events, funding opportunities, has just been released in November 2015.
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South Korean newspapers report that Iceland and South Korea haveagreed today "to strengthen cooperation on the Arctic region".
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A video,made by the Russian military’s TV channel and now published on YouTube with English subtitles, unveils some details on the RussianArktichesky Trilistnik (Arctic Trefoil) in the Archipelago of Franz Joseph Land (80N). The new complex, which will becompleted by the end of the year, will be a permanent structure on the 80th parallel in the far north Arctic where 150 soldiers can live autonomously for up to 2 years.
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The new IASSA website is now online! The website has a new design, is now more secure, and is also responsive and mobile-friendly!
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The 1st Central European Polar Meeting will be held 10th-13th November 2015 in Vienna. This meeting is a memorial to the Austrian polar explorer and scientist Julius Payer (1841-1915), to commemorate his achievements for the international polar sciences. It is jointly organized by the Committee on Polar Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Centre for Polar Ecology, Czech Republic, and the Austrian Polar Research Institute, in cooperation with the National Committee for Global Change of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
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Arctic Portal would like to congratulate and wish all the best to Timo Koivurova, appointed new Director of the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland.
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The Fennica, a multipurpose icebreaker and platform supply vessel, and the Nordica, also equipped with a 160-ton crane, both owned by the Finnish Arctia, reached the harbour of Nuuk on October 31st, after a "late-season" journey through the Northwest passage.
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On October 30th, 2015, inin New London, Connecticut, U.S, the eight Arctic States signed a Joint statementestablishing an "Arctic Coast Guard Forum (ACGF), an independent, informal, operationally driven organization, not bound by treaty, implying possibilities to organize meetings (consultations) of the heads and experts of the Members, exchange of the information of mutual concern, exchange of best practices, ideas and core principles of joint cooperation development, joint practical measures on maintaining safety and security at sea".