A stronger Arctic Council leads towards a sustainable Arctic

Together, Arctic nations have a lot of work ahead of them towards a sustainable future where climate change will have to be brought under control as we continue to develop our Arctic communities and economies in harmony with the environment.

Iceland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Gudlaugur Thór Thórdarson greets then-Canadian foreign minister Marc Garneau at the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Reykjavík, Iceland, on May 20. Photograph courtesy of the Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs

Opinion

BY HLYNUR GUDJONSSON

November 3, 2021

Iceland’s two-year chairmanship of the Arctic Council came to an end at the Reykjavík Ministerial Meeting in May 2021 with the adoption of the Reykjavík Declaration and a first-ever Strategic Plan. Since the creation of the Arctic Council in Ottawa in 1996, declarations of the biannual ministeri...

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