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The Annual International Forum "Arctic: Today And The Future" takes place in December in St. Petersburg.
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Today, typhoon survivors and civil society groups in the Philippines delivered a complaint to the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR) calling for an investigation into the responsibility of big fossil fuel companies for fuelling catastrophic climate change that is resulting in human rights violations" Greenpeace Philippines reported this morning.
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Circum-Arctic Gallery, a Canadian-Icelandic based company, is hosting the first International Arctic Art Show in Reykjavik from the 15th to19th of October 2015 and aims to promote the work of indigenous artists from across the Arctic Circle, providing a platform to show case their work and reach a wider audience.
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The latest edition of the "Arctic Herald" journal is now available online. The information and analytical journal, published by the Russian Geographical Society, was first released in 2012 and "conceived as the platform for communication among the expert community, as well as all those engaged and interested in the problems of today's Arctic", as stated by Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, for the first number of the journal.
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MastersInDataScience.org is a new online resource that features a comprehensive directory of Master's degree programs in data science (and interdisciplinary programs in related specialties) as well as entertaining and history-rich discussions of the uses of data science in various industries.
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At its first session since the 1 September election, the Faroese Parliament today appointed Aksel V. Johannesen, chairman of the Social Democratic Party, as the Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands.
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This Saturday at a conference in Quebec, Canada an international research team will present the first online data portal on global permafrost.
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On the beginning of September, the five polar bear range states – Canada, Kingdom of Denmark (Greenland), Norway, Russia, and the United States – have met in Ilulissat (GL) and committed themselves to a 10-year plan that aims to secure the long-term survival of polar bears in the wild.
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On Tuesday 8th September, the Arctic Economic Council (AEC) Secretariat was officially opened in Tromsø by the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Børge Brende. The news has been released on the social media, both by the Norwegian MFA (via Twitter) and both by the Arctic Council (via Facebook), and by the Barents Observer.
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ARCTIC OCEAN — U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, homeported in Seattle, arrived at the North Pole Sept. 5, 2015, becoming the first U.S. surface ship to do so unaccompanied. This is also only the fourth time a U.S. surface vessel has ever reached the North Pole, and the first since 2005.
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This weekend in Paris, the United States and Switzerland hosted senior officials from 18 developed countries to discuss our collaborative efforts to scale up climate finance for developing nations, and to provide increased transparency on our progress.
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The Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP) Summit, a major event in the further planning of the Year of Polar Prediction, was held from 13–15 July 2015 at WMO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.