COP29 | Creating Space for Nature: Visions of Arctic Futures Aligned with the 1.5°C Emission Reduction Goal

This event is hosted by the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI) at the Cryosphere Pavillion during COP29. Join in-person or online.

When: 13 November 2024, 6:00 GMT / 10:00 GST
Where: Cryosphere Pavillion or online

The planetary cryosphere is shrinking in response to rising temperatures. Because of climate change, these ice-covered regions are losing their natural safeguards against extractive industries wanting to tap into marine and terrestrial environments containing non-renewable resources such as fossil fuels and minerals that were deemed previously inaccessible.

This session brings together relevant voices from (and for) the Arctic region, to develop and share visions of possible futures in which Arctic nature is safeguarded from the negative impacts of climate change and industrial pressures, and to deliberate solutions that can get us to realize the visions of the futures consistent with the 1.5C world, and also with the Cryosphere regions that retain their function and resilience.

Moderator: Elena Tracy, WWF Global Arctic Programme

 Speakers: 

• Ksenia Vakhrusheva, Policy Advisor, Bellona International
• Per Henning Mathisen, Arctic Youth Network and Saami Council
• Louis Papis Chemnitz, Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC), Greenland
• Gunn-Britt Retter, Head of the Arctic and Environmental Unit, Saami Council
• Gavin Allwright, Secretary General, International Windship Association
• Vance Culbert, Senior Policy Advisor, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)