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On 20 June, the Council of the European Union released its conclusions in response to theJoint Communication on an integrated European Union policy for the Arctic adopted by the European Commission and the High Commissioner of the European External Action Service on 27 April 2016.
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At the ArcticCoastGuardForum (ACGF) held in Boston, Massachusetts (USA), the leaders of all eight Arctic Council member state coast guards have agreed to improve information exchange in the coming years, according to a statement released by US Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft on Monday 13 June.
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A recent study published in the journal Nature Communications has found a connection between melting ice in Greenland and the phenomenon known as Arctic amplification.
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According to data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado (US), May 2016 saw the lowest Arctic sea ice extent in the Arctic for the month of May since satellite observations began in 1979.
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As the next preparedness exercise to be held in Montréal, Canada approaches, the Arctic Council recently announced that the “Agreement on Cooperation on Marine Oil Pollution Preparedness and Response in the Arctic”, which the eight Arctic Council Member States signed in 2013, was formally ratified in late March 2016.
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Press release from the Danish Foreign Ministry
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Denmark and Greenland on 16-17 June, accepting an invitation from Minister for Foreign Affairs Kristian Jensen and member of Naalakkersuisut (the Government of Greenland) with responsibility for foreign affairs, Vittus Qujaukitsoq. The visit will focus in particular on the Arctic cooperation, the climate, Syria, ISIL, Ukraine and trade. John Kerry will also meet with the Prime Minister.
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Decreased sea ice extent in the Arctic is opening up new possibilities in telecommunications. A new undersea Internet fibre-optic cable system will be laid across the Arctic seabed, creating the shortest link between eastern Asia and western Europe via Alaska and the Canadian Arctic.
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After a number of years absent from the Northern Forum, the US State of Alaska along with the Finnish region of Lapland have decided to re-join the international organization, which brings together local and regional actors from across the Arctic.
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On May 16th and 17th, a joint Norwegian-Russian international seminar focusing on the reindeer meat industry took place in Moscow as part of a series of events within the Arctic Council Sustainable Development Working Group’s EALLU (Reindeer Youth and Food culture) project.
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The Polar Research Institute of China (PRIC) has officially launched the new website for its scientific journal Advances in Polar Science (APS).
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A number of the world's food industry giants and fishing companies - including McDonald’s, Iglo, Birds Eye, Icelandic Seachill, Fiskebåt, the Karat Group, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Marks and Spencer, Espersen, Asda and others - have voluntarily agreed not to expand trawling for cod into previously ice-covered areas of the Barents Sea in the vicinity of the Norwegian Archipelago of Svalbard.
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The Ecologic Institute, a non-profit environmental consulting organisation headquartered in Washington DC and Berlin that conducts environmental research and prepares political analyses for decision-makers, is accepting calls from both professionals and students to take part in the Arctic Summer College 2016 webinar series.