Arctic Strategies

Recommendation: The German Arctic Office published a helpful overview and an introduction to the Arctic Strategies of the member and observer states of the Arctic Council.

“Arctic Strategies 2017” offers an overview and an introduction to the Arctic Strategies of the member and observer states of the Arctic Council. This introduction was commissioned in partnership with the German Arctic Office. The policy paper is a scientific publication, the opinions expressed in the paper are the author’s own and do not reflect the view of the German Arctic Office.

 

Bonn Climate Law & Governance Day 2017

UNFCCC COP23 is coming up.
Alongside the conference the Bonn Climate Law & Governance Day 2017 will take place.

It is about:
Multi-level legal instruments to implement the Paris Agreement and NDCs;

Operationalising the Paris Agreement;

Advancing Climate Resilience and Climate Justice;

Legal Frameworks To Enable Climate Finance and Engage the Private Sector

More information: http://www.climatelawgovernance.org/climate-law-and-govern…/
Bonn Climate Law & Governance Day 2017
Friday, 10 November 2017
during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
23nd Conference of the Parties (COP22) in Bonn, Germany
Venue : Heussallee 18-24, 53113 Bonn, Germany

Arctic Council at COP23: Climate change in the Arctic and its global impacts

On Monday 6 November 2017, the Arctic Council will host an official side event at the UNFCCC COP23 in Bonn, Germany. The event — “The global implications of a rapidly-changing Arctic” — will present the latest science on Arctic climate change and its implications for the rest of the world. Some of the foremost researchers on Arctic climate will present, alongside panelists from the WMO, the Saami Council, and others.

http://arctic-council.org/index.php/en/our-work2/8-news-and-events/473-cop23

Arctic Shipping II

New publication!
Governance of Arctic Shipping
Balancing Rights and Interests of Arctic States and User States

Edited by Robert C. Beckman, National University of Singapore; Tore Henriksen, UiT The Arctic University of Tromsø; Kristine Dalaker Kraabel, UiT The Arctic University of Tromsø; Erik J. Molenaar, Utrecht University; and J. Ashley Roach, U.S. Navy, U.S. Department of State (retired)

Brill 2017

New! Arctic Yearbook 2017 – Change & Innovation

The Arctic Yearbook 2017 is out. It includes several law-related articles.

E.g.,

Robert P. Wheelersburg & Sean Melvin, Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights in the Arctic

Dan Liu, The 2015 Oslo Declaration on Arctic High Seas Fisheries: The Starting Point Towards Future Fisheries Management in the Central Arctic Ocean

Malgorzata (Gosia) Smieszek, The Agreement on Enhancing International Arctic Scientific Cooperation: From Paper to Practice