lloydslist.com (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
US, Canada, Russia and the five Nordic nations on the Arctic Council are working very closely, says Canadian government representative.
http://maps.grida.no/go/feedrandom (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
The Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna is a working group under the Arctic Council, for the countries of Russia, Denmark, USA, Canada, Sweden, Iceland, Norway and Finland and indigenous peoples. Monitoring, assessment, protected areas and conservation strategies are all tasks under this working group. The area that the working group primarily addresses is presented in this map.
http://maps.grida.no/go/feedrandom (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
The Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna is a working group under the Arctic Council, for the countries of Russia, Denmark, USA, Canada, Sweden, Iceland, Norway and Finland and indigenous peoples. Monitoring, assessment, protected areas and conservation strategies are all tasks under this working group. The area that the working group primarily addresses is presented in this map.
JURIST (Free subscription) | 27/05/2008
[JURIST] The five states that comprise the Arctic Council will meet in Greenland Wednesday to discuss plans to divide harvesting rights to resources and minerals on the Arctic seabed. Under the Law of the Seas Treaty, a country has exclusive harvesting rights to a zone extending 200 nautical miles from its shore, but when a continental shelf extends farther a nation may claim up to 350 miles from the...
Library Boy (Free subscription) | 16/04/2008
The Library of Parliament has just posted a new publication on its website entitled International Organizations in Europe (Canadian Involvement) . Canada is involved in more than a dozen European organizations, ranging from the Arctic Council to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and the Council of Europe: "Europe has the most extensive political architecture of any region in the world. After World War...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
Countries outside the circumpolar North are showing interest in northern issues, with China being the latest country to join the Arctic Council.
ENN: Top Stories (Free subscription) | 22/01/2008
Exploitation of the Arctic's huge oil and gas wealth poses a growing danger to an icy wilderness that can recover only slowly from heavy oil spills, a report by the eight-nation Arctic Council said on Monday. "Oil spills can kill large numbers of animals by covering them in oil, and create long-term contamination that can affect populations and ecosystems for decades," an overview report by the Arctic...
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 15/11/2007
ROVANIEMI (Finland), November 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's presidency of the Barents Euro-Arctic Council (BEAC) will focus on sustainable development, environmental protection and the support of indigenous peoples, the foreign minister said on Thursday.
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 13/11/2007
MOSCOW, November 13 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's presidency of the Barents Euro-Arctic Council (BEAC) will focus on sustainable development, environmental protection and support of indigenous peoples, the Foreign Ministry said.
