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The Age of the Arctic

Sustainable Management of the Arctic Seas

Sunday evening 18 January (Polar Environmental Centre)

19:00 to 21:00 at Polar Environmental Centre, downtown

  • Paul Dahlø, Chairman of Troms County Government: Welcome to Troms and Norway.
  • Steinar Pedersen, Principal of the Sami University College: Indigenous people in the Age of the Arctic.
  • Riddu riddu: Cultural presentation and music – Sylvia Cloutier (modern Inuit musician from Canada)and Sara Marielle (modern Sami musician from Norway).

21:00 to 23:00 POLART art exhibition at Tromsø Kunstforening,

Monday 19 January (University of Tromsø)

09:00 Jarle Aarbakke, Rector of University of Tromsø & Salve Dahle, Chairman of Steering committee: Opening of Arctic Frontiers

09:05 Egil Olli, President of Sami Parliament: Address to Arctic Frontiers

New opportunities and challenges

Chaired by Hans Corell, Former Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and the Legal Counsel of the United Nations, and Siri Kalvig, founder of Storm Weather.

09:10 Elisabeth Walaas, State secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs on behalf of Jonas Gahr Støre, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway: Priorities for the Arctic.

09:50 Coffee break

10:10 Joe Borg, Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, European Commission: The Arctic strategy of the European Union.

10:40 Sergei Donskoi, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology, Russian Federation: Development of resources in the Russian Arctic.

11:10 James A. Slutz, Assistant Secretary, Office of Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy: US focus on energy in the Arctic.

11:40 Per Berthelsen, Minister for Finance and Foreign Affairs, Greenland Home Rule: Living off nature.

12:10 Danielle Labonté, Director General, Strategic Policy (Northern Affairs) , Indian and Northern Affairs. Canada: Canada's northern strategy and Arctic Research Initiative.

12:40 Summary by Chair, questions and general discussion.

13:00 Lunch

13:50 Oran Young, Professor Bren School of Environmental Management, University of California Santa Barbara, USA: The age of the Arctic.

14:20 Hariharan Pakshi Rajan, Principal Law of the Sea /Ocean affairs Officer, Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law the Sea, UN: The Arctic and the UNCLOS.

14:50 Cecilie Mauritzen, Norwegian Meteorological Institute: What have we learned from the International Polar Year?

15:20 Trond Grytting, Rear Admiral, Norway: From the cold war to the hot Arctic.

15:50 Summary by Chair, questions and general discussion

16:10 Buses to coastal liner ‘Hurtigruta’

17:00 Cruise and conference dinner onboard MS ‘Finnmarken’

21:00 Return to Tromsø and winding up at pub ‘Ølhallen’

Tuesday 20 January (University of Tromsø)

Licence to operate – Management of the Arctic seas

Chair: Åslaug Haga, Representative in Norwegian Parliament, and Ole Lindefjeld, Research Director ConocoPhillips Norway

09:00 Salve Dahle, Chairman of Steering committee: Opening day 2

09:02 Trude Sundset, Vice President Environment and Climate, StatoilHydro, Norway: How to earn a licence to operate in the Arctic.

09:32 Herve Madeo, First Deputy CEO/ VP Projects, Shtokman Development AG, Russia: Development of Shtockman gas field.

10:02 Carlos Berrozpe Garcia, Leader for marine team, Unit for water protection and marine environment, DG Environment, European Commission: Ecosystem approach to the management of the arctic seas.

10:32 Coffee break

11:00 Einar Svendsen, Research Director at Institute of Marine Research, Norway: Fisheries of the arctic seas in an era of climate changes.

11:30 Tatiana Saksina, Arctic Governance Officer at WWF International: Arctic governance.

12:00 Jan G. Winther, Director Norwegian Polar Institute, Norway: Legacy of IPY.

12:30 Lunch.

13:30 Heidi Sørensen, State Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Norway: Arctic Seas from white to blue – how will it affect us and what must we do?

14:10 Summary by Chair, questions and general discussion.

14:30 Coffee break

Young science in the North: Panel discussion.

Chair: David Carlson, Director, International Programme Office International Polar Year, and Olav Orheim, Head of Norwegian IPY-secretariat.

15:00 Panel 

  • Jenny Baeseman, Director - Association of Polar Early Career Scientists ( USA);
  • Andrew J. Greenshaw, Vice-Chair Board of Governors, University of the Arctic, and Associate Vice President (Research) University of Alberta Canada;
  • Kriss Rokkan Iversen, Young Scientist Forum, ARCTOS, Norway;
  • Alexandre Forest, young scientist representing ArcticNet, Canada;
  • Representative from Sami College, Kautokeino, Norway;
  • Representative from young scientists from Russian Academy of Science, Russia; 

16:30 Summing up by Martin Fortier, Executive Director of ArcticNet Canada.

16:50 Closing by Salve Dahle, Chairman of Steering committee for Arctic Frontiers

17:00 Buses to hotel

19:00 Mingling, food and entertainment Culture Centre (‘Kulturhuset’) to 22:00
 
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