The Outcome of the Ninth Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting
The ministerial meeting in Iqaluit, Nunavut (Canada), closed Canada's two-year Arctic Council (AC) chairmanship. Arctic cooperation seems relatively unaffected by the poor state of Russia's relations with the West. Canada invested much in its AC Chairmanship, but its deliverables have been less significant than those of previous chairs. Canada's two main achievements are the Arctic Economic Council and the framework for action on black carbon and methane. The framework is only a step in the right direction, not a full agreement. The programme of the new AC chair, the USA, has the potential to enhance practical cooperation between the EU and the AC. As Canada and the EU had resolved their differences, it seemed possible that the EU would at last receive formal observer status to the Council at the Iqaluit meeting, but Russia's geostrategic interests led Moscow to block the process. Given the growing number of observers, the US chair may propose that only one third of observers join high-level AC meetings under any one chair.
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- América
- ASUNTOS SOCIALES
- calentamiento de la tierra
- Canadá
- Conferencia de Ministros
- construcción europea
- cooperación internacional
- demografía y población
- deterioro del medio ambiente
- Dinamarca
- Estados Unidos
- Europa
- GEOGRAFÍA
- geografía económica
- geografía política
- MEDIO AMBIENTE
- medio natural
- observador
- ORGANIZACIONES INTERNACIONALES
- organizaciones mundiales
- organización mundial
- papel internacional de la UE
- población autóctona
- política de cooperación
- política del medio ambiente
- política internacional
- reducción de las emisiones de gas
- RELACIONES INTERNACIONALES
- Rusia
- Suecia
- UNIÓN EUROPEA
- Ártico