28 March 2025 | 08:30 - 10:00 (MDT)
Open Session - HYBRID
Room: UMC Third Floor - 386
Organisers & Speakers: Tiina Kurvits (Grid Arendal, Norway); Julius Mihkkal Eriksen Lindi (Arctic and Environmental Unit, Saami Council); Albert van Wijngaarden (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK)
Session Description:
This session will introduce the second phase of the UArctic Arctic Climate Interventions project and seek feedback from the Arctic scientific community and indigenous knowledge-holders present at ICARP-IV. The first phase of this project was a rapid assessment of all proposed interventions to slow, halt, or reverse the effects of climate change in the Arctic scored against 12 criteria. This literature review provided clarity about which projects exist, and what their potential strengths, weaknesses, and risks are, but also found that knowledge about such interventions was severely lacking. Phase 2 of the project will assemble teams of leading scientists, indigenous representatives, and key knowledge holders to conduct more detailed assessments of the proposed interventions. After summarising the findings from phase one, and outlining the motivation of phase two, this session will place particular emphasis on the co-production of knowledge and the exploration of the ways an assessment can be designed and conducted in a fair and just way that is acceptable to and legitimate for local communities and indigenous peoples.