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18 August 2010The next SAO meeting is to take place in Tórshavn
In October, the Senior Arctic Officials of the Arctic Council will meet for their fall session, this time in Tórshavn, The Faroe Islands. The meeting will be an important step in the preparations for the Ministerial Meeting in Nuuk, Greenland in May 2011, which will mark the ending of the Danish Chairmanship and the starting point for Sweden as Chair of the Arctic Council.
The Faroe Islands is situated in the North Atlantic Ocean, two hours by plane from mainland Europe. The 18 mountainous islands of the Faroe Islands offer 1,289 kilometers of coastline and a proximity of no more than five kilometers to the ocean from any point of the islands. You can read more . . .
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06 August 2010
Russian Emergency Response Exercise
EXERCISE--EXERCISE-- The emergency response exercise "Exercise Arctic 2010", sponsored by the Arctic Council Working Group EPPR, took place at the Nerpa Shipyard near Murmansk, in the Russian Federation, on 28-29 July.
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29 June 2010
Biodiversity Trends: The Polar Bear
‘Arctic Biodiversity Trends – 2010: Selected Indicators of Change’, the Arctic Council/CAFF report synthesizing scientific findings on the status and trends for selected biodiversity in the Arctic, was launched earlier this year. It has one chapter on Polar Bears, and the findings from this chapter are summarized below.
Calendar
Upcoming events Arctic Council
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02 - 03 September 2010
ACAP Working Group Meeting, Oslo, Norway
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13 September 2010
AOR Workshop
Washington D.C.
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Upcoming events others
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13 - 15 September 2010
Conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region
The European Parliament, Brussels
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22 - 23 September 2010
The Arctic: Territory of Dialogue
Moscow, Russia
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Did you know ... ?
…that there are 16.647 place names in the Svalbard Archipelago!