The ice in the arctic is melting, revealing huge amounts of fossil fuels, rare earths and new shipping routes. And the rush to secure these has already begun. Will countries continue their race for economic and militaristic advantages or will they finally work together to solve the global problem of climate change?
Credits
Reporter: Monika Sax
Video Editor: Markus Mörtz
Supervising Editor: Joanna Gottschalk, Kiyo Dörrer & Michael Trobridge
We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our channel explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.
#PlanetA #Arctic #FossilFuels
Special thanks (for research support and background information):
The Arctic Council: https://www.arctic-council.org/
GRID-Arendal: https://www.grida.no/
Malte Humpert, The Arctic Institute: https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/
Dr. Nina Döring, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V. (IASS): https://www.iass-potsdam.de/de
Andreas Østhagen, Fridtjof Nansen Institute: https://www.fni.no/
Elena Tracy, Arctic Programme, WWF: https://www.arcticwwf.org/
Dr. Sanna Kopra, The Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law Arctic Centre, University of Lapland & The Arctic Institute | Center for Circumpolar Security Studies: https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/ex...
Dr. Volker Rachold, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung: https://www.arctic-office.de/
Dr. Michael Paul, SWP Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, German Institute for International and Security Affairs: https://www.swp-berlin.org/
Read more:
Status of offshore oil and gas activities and regulatory frameworks in the Arctic (May 2021): https://pame.is/document-library/pame...
Various arctic fact sheets: https://www.arctic-office.de/en/publi...
Impact of Arctic Change: https://arcticrisk.org/latest-data/
Information about arctic peoples, biodiversity, climate, ocean, pollutants, emergencies: https://www.arctic-council.org/resour...
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:28 The run to the melting Arctic has begun
02:44 Why the Arctic is so important
04:13 Political leaders and their plans
05:55 Arctic players today – where are they?
06:57 How scientific guess became fact
07:34 The people & habitat of the Arctic
09:00 Effects of traffic in the Arctic
10:52 Introducing the Arctic Council
11:17 Conclusion
Credits
Reporter: Monika Sax
Video Editor: Markus Mörtz
Supervising Editor: Joanna Gottschalk, Kiyo Dörrer & Michael Trobridge
We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our channel explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.
#PlanetA #Arctic #FossilFuels
Special thanks (for research support and background information):
The Arctic Council: https://www.arctic-council.org/
GRID-Arendal: https://www.grida.no/
Malte Humpert, The Arctic Institute: https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/
Dr. Nina Döring, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V. (IASS): https://www.iass-potsdam.de/de
Andreas Østhagen, Fridtjof Nansen Institute: https://www.fni.no/
Elena Tracy, Arctic Programme, WWF: https://www.arcticwwf.org/
Dr. Sanna Kopra, The Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law Arctic Centre, University of Lapland & The Arctic Institute | Center for Circumpolar Security Studies: https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/ex...
Dr. Volker Rachold, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung: https://www.arctic-office.de/
Dr. Michael Paul, SWP Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, German Institute for International and Security Affairs: https://www.swp-berlin.org/
Read more:
Status of offshore oil and gas activities and regulatory frameworks in the Arctic (May 2021): https://pame.is/document-library/pame...
Various arctic fact sheets: https://www.arctic-office.de/en/publi...
Impact of Arctic Change: https://arcticrisk.org/latest-data/
Information about arctic peoples, biodiversity, climate, ocean, pollutants, emergencies: https://www.arctic-council.org/resour...
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:28 The run to the melting Arctic has begun
02:44 Why the Arctic is so important
04:13 Political leaders and their plans
05:55 Arctic players today – where are they?
06:57 How scientific guess became fact
07:34 The people & habitat of the Arctic
09:00 Effects of traffic in the Arctic
10:52 Introducing the Arctic Council
11:17 Conclusion