Arctic Council after 25 years: including Inuit knowledge key to the path forward

To date, the Arctic Council has provided a forum for the negotiation of three important legally-binding treaties on scientific co-operation, oil spill preparedness and response, and search and rescue.

The Arctic Council’s signing ceremony in Ottawa in 1996, with Mary May Simon, left, who is now Canada’s Governor General, and on the far left, then foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy. Photograph courtesy of the Inuit Circumpolar Council

Opinion

BY DALEE SAMBO DOROUGH, JIMMY STOTTS, MONICA ELL-KANAYUK, LIUBOV TAIAN AND HJALMAR DAHL

September 22, 2021

Inuit across four circumpolar nations—Alaska (United States), Canada, Chukotka (Russia), and Greenland—consider S...

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