28 March 2025 | 08:30 - 10:00 (MDT)
Open Session - HYBRID
Room: UMC Third Floor - 386
Organisers: 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 recently started second phase of the UArctic Frozen Arctic Report. The first phase of this project collected all proposed interventions to slow, halt, or reverse the effects of climate change in the Arctic and scored them on 12 different categories. 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. In the second phase, leading scientists, indigenous representatives, and key knowledge holders will co-produce an evaluation system for the proposed interventions, and select relevant experts to assess or produce knowledge on several of the most promising 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.