English / Русский - Press Room - FAQ - Contact - Password Area 
28.02.12 - 1.03.12 Salekhard, Russia
CAFF board meeting
20.03.12 - 22.03.12 Girdwood, Alaska
Oil Spill Preparedness and Response Task Force Meeting
22.03.12 - 23.03.12 Stockholm, Sweden
PAME Ecosystem Approach Workshop (EA)
26.03.12 - 27.03.12 Stockholm, Sweden
PAME meeting
27.03.12 - 29.03.12
SAO meeting, Stockholm, Sweden
Read about the meeting, register, and download documents.
Working Group News
Read about AMAP's Mercury in the Arctic assessment.
On 14 February 2012 the Standing Committee of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region (SCPAR) met at the Riksdag Building in Stockholm to discuss Arctic cooperation. Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt gave a speech during the meeting in view of Sweden’s Chairmanship of the Arctic Council in 2011–2013.
On 14–15 February, the Arctic Council Sustainable Development Working Group will meet in Gällivare. The meeting is being organised under the Swedish Chairmanship of the Arctic Council, which lasts until 2013. Around 30 representatives of the eight member states, indigenous peoples and observer states will take part.
The 6th of February is the Sami National Day which is celebrated in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, the four countries where the indigenous Sami people live today. The Sami National Day has been celebrated since 1993. The date, February 6, was chosen to commemorate the first Sami congress which was held in Trondheim, Norway in 1917.
The Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program (CBMP), the cornerstone program of the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) working group, received official endorsement from the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON) in January 2012. CBMP now belongs to the GEO BON regional network Arctic-BON. Arctic-BON is one of five regional networks. The other four are AP BON (which includes ASEAN CB), F-BON (France/ECOSOPE), EBONE (Europe), and J-BON (Japan).
Feed Entries
