Finland takes the chair

Change continues apace in the Arctic – faster than anywhere else on the planet. Monitoring, mitigating and managing that change will be Finland’s chief concern as it takes its turn chairing the Arctic Council for the next two years.

Find out how it plans to do that, and how other Arctic countries, Permanent Participants – the six Indigenous groups represented at the Council – and the non-Arctic Observer states intend to be involved in this mandate.

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