Plenary Session with the chairs of the Arctic Circle Mission Councils. Ours, Global Arctic Mission Council represented by Lassi Heininen. Two more mission councils added this year: The Global - Arctic Indigenous Dialogue; and, Blue Economy. Arctic Circle

#ArcticCircle2021

Greenland night has started!!

Amazing performance #Greenland night 🇬🇱

So Bezos told the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow that he had grasped nature's fragility when he travelled into space. !!! Really?? One has to be billioner, cause all that damage and then do space travel to grasp that?? Wow… Speechless.

"...the [US] administration prepares to hold the largest offshore oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history on Nov. 17." The USA continues to "lead on climate"... huffpost.com/entry/biden-cl…

This by Denny Ow.

Miya Christensen raises to a crucial question for #sciencediplomacy at #OCErlangen InsSciDE Project conference: what social effects does public communication actually have on #sciencediplomacy actions and its discourse?

Please watch this incredible @NBCnews piece on the destruction wrought by oil companies digging up the Amazon rainforest. Why are they doing it? To ship fossil fuels to companies in California like @costco &, bitter irony, Amazon. Stand.earth Amazon Watch #EndAmazonCrude

Thwaites: Antarctic glacier heading for dramatic change bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

How to compansate for eons of racism?.. but this is a tiny step in the right direction: Canada offers up to $40bn to compensate indigenous children bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-…

Arctic heat record is like Mediterranean, says UN bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

Attenborough narrates Johnson. Pure gold.

I will be speaking at an event, live broadcast, on Environmental Crises on Monday, Dec 20 at 13:30 Swedish time. Organized by Centre for Comparative Politics and Media Research, Bournemouth University (UK), and aboutpeople (Greece). kth.se/philhist/histo… facebook.com/726652325/post…

While we wait and watch… Mount Everest: Mountain's highest glacier melting rapidly, new study shows bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

What are we to make of the length of this table?.. I mean, really, in an abstract geopolitical sense?.. ”Ukraine crisis: Macron says crucial days ahead after Putin summit” bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

At a #ICA22 panel w/Miya Christensen on COVID and citizens at the margins of society. After 2+ years of not hearing this issue addressed nearly enough in Sweden, great to hear really smart researchers present their important work on the subject.

“Happy the elephant is not a person, New York court rules”. “While elephants are "impressive", the court said, they are not entitled to the same liberty rights as humans.” So say the humans. What would the elephants say about us?.. bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-…

Professor Merje Kuus from University of British Columbia participating in a very interesting session on Knowledge for Governance and Diplomacy: Expertise & Dialogue Arctic Circle Japan Forum

We need and we must have more open democratic dialogue” - Great panel on diplomacy and security organised by the UArctic Thematic Network on Geopolitics and Security here in Tokyo - Arctic Yearbook. Danish Institute for Advanced Study Arctic Circle CWS - War Studies