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GC's Resource Library, Curated for you
Arctic & Antarctic Harmful Exploitation
- Oil & Gas
- Deep Seabed Mining
- Shipping
- Nuclear Weapons Testing & Waste Dumping
Climate Ethics - Geoengineering
- State of the Sea Ice
- Impacts of Ice Loss
- Extreme Weather Events
- Ocean Plastics
- Indigenous Communities
- Climate and Gender
- Youth & Intergenerational Action
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Climate Change in General
Explainer: Nine ‘tipping points’ that could be triggered by climate change, Carbon Brief (Accessed: 06.2020)
The Razor's Edge of a Warming World - 8 Places to Save Climate Change, GQ (Accessed: 04.2022)
Ice Crisis
State of the Sea Ice
Impacts of Ice Loss
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NSIDC: Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis, (Updated Daily)
Arctic sea ice thinning twice as fast as thought, study finds, The Guardian (Accessed: 07.2021)
Harmful Exploitation in the Arctic
Oil & Gas
Deep Seabed Mining
Factbox: What happens when there is an oil spill at sea? Reuters (Accessed: 05.2021)
Why Drilling the Arctic Refuge Will Release a Double Dose of Carbon, e360 Yale (Accessed: 06.2021)
Arctic oil and gas: the wrong solution to the world’s energy crisis The Barents Observer (Accessed: 04.2022)
Out of our depth: Deep seabed mining is not the answer to the climate crisis, Phy.org (Accessed: 01.2021)
Major Companies Join Call For Deep- Sea Mining Moratorium, EcoWatch (Accessed 05.2021)
One Ocean Summit: UNESCO pledges to have at least 80% of the seabed mapped by 2030, UNESCO (Accessed: 04.2022)
Shipping
Why Arctic Countries Must Go Further Than the IMO’s Weak Arctic Heavy Fuel Oil Ban, HFO-Free Arctic (Accessed: 06.2021)
Unsustainable Arctic shipping risks accelerating damage to the Arctic environment, Science Daily (Accessed: 09. 2021)
‘Black carbon’ threat to Arctic as sea routes open up with global heating, The Guardian (Accessed: 04.2022)
Nuclear Weapons Testing
& Waste Dumping
Russia Tests Nuclear 'Doomsday' Torpedo in Arctic, Expands Military, Business Insider (Accessed: 05.2021)
Tackling dumped nuclear waste gets priority in Russia’s Arctic Council leadership, The Barents Observer (Accessed: 06.2021)
Policy & Governance
30×30: A Blueprint for Ocean Protection, Greenpeace (Accessed: 05.2020)
Global Biodiversity Framework, Convention on Biological Diversity (Accessed: 05.2023)
BBNJ Treaty Factsheet, High Seas Alliance (Accessed: 07.2023)
Global Commons
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Elinor Ostrom's 8 Principles for Managing A Commons, On the Commons (Accessed: 05.2020)
The Tragedy of the Commons: How Elinor Ostrom Solved One of Life's Greatest Dilemmas, Evonomics (Accessed: 05.2020)
Stockholm+50: Protect the Global Commons for the prosperity of all, Global Commons Alliance (Accessed: 04.2022)
People
Indigenous Communities
Arctic Indigenous Peoples, Arctic Council (Accessed: 05.2021)
Food Insecurity: Arctic Heat Is Threatening Indigenous Life, e360 Yale (Accessed: 04.2020)
Saving the Arctic: the wisdom of the Inuit and the future of the North Pole, The Hill (Accessed: 07.2020)
The value of involving Indigenous people in protecting Antarctica, Independent (Accessed: 07.2021)
'Nature has ceased to trust us', The Ecologist (Accessed: 09.2021)
We Can Still Save Antarctica, Youth Climate Activists Insist After 10-Day Trek, Global Citizen (Accessed: 04.2022)
Climate and Gender
5 Reasons Why Climate Action Needs Women. UN Climate Change, UNFCCC (Accessed: 05.2020)
Our Voices, Our Environment: The State of Funding for Women's Environmental Action, GGF (Accessed: 07.2020)
Scope for improvement: Linking the Women, Peace and Security Agenda to climate change, SIPRI (Accessed: 06.2020)
Once Shunned in Antarctica, Female Scientists Are Now Doing Crucial Polar Research, Scientific American (Accessed: 12.2021)
Youth and Intergenerational Action
A year of resistance: How youth protests shaped the discussion on climate change, The Conversation (Accessed: 05.2020)
The Power of Inclusive, Intergenerational Climate Activism, YES! (Accessed: 06.2021)
Biodiversity
Climate change could cause sudden biodiversity losses worldwide, Phys.org (Accessed: 04.2020)
Arctic Ocean: climate change is flooding the remote north with light - and new species, The Conversation (Accessed: 03.2021)
Arctic biodiversity at risk as world overshoots climate planetary boundary, Mongabay (Accessed: 09.2021)
COP15: Key outcomes for nature loss and climate change from UN talks in Geneva, Carbon Brief (Accessed: 04.2022)
Oceans
Extreme Weather Events
Arctic ice melt is changing ocean currents, Science Daily (Accessed: 05.2020)
In 5 charts: natural catastrophes in a changing climate, Swiss Re (Accessed: 07.2021)
Climate change: Arctic warming linked to colder winters, BBC (Accessed: 09.2021)
Extreme Weather Events in the Arctic and Beyond - A Global State of Emergency, CCAG (Accessed: 03.2022)
Ocean Plastic
Microplastics may affect how Arctic sea ice forms and melts, The Conversation (Accessed: 01.2020)
Plastic rafting: the invasive species hitching a ride on ocean litter, The Guardian (Accessed: 07.2021)
The Global “Plastic Flood” – Even the High North Arctic Ocean Can’t Escape Microplastic Pollution, SciTechDaily (Accessed: 04.2022)
Arctic sea ice algae heavily contaminated with microplastics, earth.com (Accessed: 04.2023)
Climate Literacy
Defense and Arctic Security
The History and Future of Arctic State Conflict: The Arctic Institute Conflict Series, The Arctic Institute (Accessed: 06.2021)
As the US and Russia spar over the Arctic, Putin creates new facts on the ground, CNN (Accessed: 05.2021)
Russia on Arctic Council Chairmanship: Wants to Revive the Military Dialogue Between Arctic States, High North News (Accessed: 06.2021)
Climate Ethics: Geoengineering
Innovation & Technology
Could Geoengineering Help Save the World’s Ice?, Sierra Club (Accessed: 11. 2020)
Technology To Transform Food Production, BioTechniques (Accessed: 05.2020)
Sámi join call to cancel a geoengineering technology test in Northern Sweden, Arctic Today (Accessed: 04.2021)
Regenerative Agriculture Can Change the Fashion Industry—And the World. But What Is It?, Vouge (Accessed: 05.2020)
Geoengineering: A worst-case Plan B? Or a fuse not to be lit?, Yale Climate Connections (Accessed: 09.2021)
The Next Generation of Climate Innovation, BCG (Accessed: 04.2022)
Climate Finance
Why we must pull financial levers to build for a changing climate, The Fifth Estate (Accessed: 08.2020)
The grand unifying theory (and practice) of macroprudential policy - speech by Mark Carney, Bank of England (Accessed: 05.2020)
$100bn in climate finance is coming. How and where will it be used?, euronews.green (Accessed: 01.2022)
The broken $100-billion promise of climate finance — and how to fix it, Nature (Accessed: 03.2022)