Tag: Meeting

The Polar Retrospective – A polar science only meeting, Russian plans for new Arctic vessels, and a cloud observatory in Antarctica

Polar Journal AG Team

The Polar Retrospective looks at recent stories from around the world’s polar regions. This week we take a look at the annual meeting of the French National Committee for Arctic and Antarctic Research, Russia’s push to build a fleet of 130 Arctic vessels to expand trade with China along the Northern Sea Route, and a new cloud observatory in Antarctica that could close critical gaps in climate models

Eric Brossier and France Pinczon du Sel - Part I: Tandem in the cold

Camille Lin

Attracted by the beauty of the Arctic and in search of rational explanations of how it works, the two partners immersed themselves in a frozen landscape. Ideal conditions in which to meet modern-day Inuit and share a few ancestral customs.

"It's a perfect time to come up with an alternative framework for the Antarctic"

Camille Lin

Antarctic Rights is an international initiative that advocates the extension of rights to all living beings in order to improve the functioning of the Antarctic Treaty and environmental protection. Two experts provide background to the initiative and explain its implications. Interview.

Towards a regulation of Antarctic tourism

Camille Lin

The growth of tourism in Antarctica is not without concern for the Treaty's Consultative Parties. In a press release issued at the end of the Kochi meetings, its Secretariat announced its intention to provide a better framework for this activity. But views still differ widely.

French contributions to the Arctic Circle Assembly

Camille Lin

Three days with 100% Arctic, focused on future challenges in all fields: energy, community development, large-scale economy... Thousands of participants packed Reykjavik's convention center.