ARCTIC CLIMATE TRAINING

17 young people from 12 different countries came together in Svalbard to learn both from each other and from our expert trainers from UNEP's Polar Centre, GRID- Arendal. The training focused on issues of Arctic governance and geopolitics, relating these to: climate impacts on its fragile environment and its peoples; mitigation and management methods to preserve its integrity moving forwards; and ways in which to provide financial mechanisms to protect the Arctic environment. Our interdisciplinary, intercultural learning experience as a group has strongly motivated us to take action on the vital issue of communicating the importance of the Arctic within the global climate system and as a model for environmental cooperation for other multilateral environmental problems.

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