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PAME is one of six Arctic Council working groups. PAME was first established under the 1991 Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy and was continued by the 1996 Ottawa Charter that established the Arctic Council.
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The report Gender Equality in the Arctic: Current Realities, Future Challengescontains summaries and highlights from the international conference held on 30-31 October 2014. The conference was held in Akureyri, Iceland with 150 participants representing various stakeholders from all member states of the Arctic Council: Canada, the Kingdom of Denmark (Greenland and the Faroe Islands), Iceland, Finland, Norway, the Russian Federation, Sweden,
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The 11th Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies has organized a Student Conference, "Due North: Next Generation Arctic Research Leadership" to be held in Calgary, November 5-8, 2015.
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Norden has recently released the following call for "sustainable urban spaces competition":
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On April 27th, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation released his official comments on the recently concluded Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting, which was attended by Sergei Donskoi, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation.
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Arctic Science Summit Week 2015 in Toyama, Japan (23–30 April) brought together nearly 700 international scientists, students, policy makers, research managers, Indigenous Peoples and others interested in developing, prioritizing and coordinating plans for future Arctic research.
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Construction began on a massive polar-themed ocean park in the Pudong New Area that is scheduled to open in 2017.
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On April 24th 2015, the Governments of Greenland and Nunavut issued a press release regarding the Revision of the EU Seal Ban Regulation. Regulation 1007/2009, which bans the entry into the EU market of seal products not deriving from "traditional" Inuit hunt, has been for many years one of the thorny issues in the EU-Canada and EU-Greenland relations.
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At the ninth Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting, held in Iqaluit on 24 and 25 of April, the US took over the chairmanship of the Council and appointed U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry as the new Chair. "There's only one Arctic and all of us – the United States, other nations, indigenous peoples, and Arctic communities - must join together to ensure responsible stewardship of this incredible region John F. Kerry stated introducing the theme chosen by the US for their chairmanship: "One Arctic: Shared Opportunities, Challenges and Responsibilities ".
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The ninth Ministerial meeting of the Arctic Council starts today and it will mark the end of Canada's Chairmanship and the start of the US Chairmanship.
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The Board of the University of Lapland decided in its meeting on the 21st of April 2015 to advertise for a new Director of the Arctic Centre in an international search. The search will be opened in May 2015.
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Papers are invited for a forthcoming special issue of the journal Advances in Polar Science (APS), entitled "Current Research on Atmospheric Aerosols and Trace Gases over the Polar Regions (AATGPR)". This special issue is scheduled to be published in September of 2015, instead of December 2015 as initially scheduled, and the deadline for paper submission is 31 May 2015.