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Arctic Ocean Resilience: Can critical tipping points still be avoided?
Fri 09 Jun 2017, 1.15 pm — Wed 03 Feb 2021, 1.30 pm
Conference Room 4, UNHQ
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Hosted by: the Government of Sweden, Stockholm Environmental Institute and Stockholm Resilience Centrum
The Arctic is often thought of as a distant and isolated region, yet it is also a bellwether of global change. Newspaper headlines and scientific publications over the past year chronical a speed and breadth of ecological and social change that is even greater than many other regions of the planet. These changes are often dramatic: new record lows for sea ice extent, temperatures dramatically above seasonal norms, permafrost thaw, eroding coastlines and acidification of the Arctic Ocean at roughly twice the rate for the world’s oceans in general.
The Arctic is often thought of as a distant and isolated region, yet it is also a bellwether of global change. Newspaper headlines and scientific publications over the past year chronical a speed and breadth of ecological and social change that is even greater than many other regions of the planet. These changes are often dramatic: new record lows for sea ice extent, temperatures dramatically above seasonal norms, permafrost thaw, eroding coastlines and acidification of the Arctic Ocean at roughly twice the rate for the world’s oceans in general.