The Arctic – The ‘Weather Kitchen’. Key Quotes

This report summarises insights from more than 400 sessions in the official program, as well as outcomes from over 200 working sessions organised by Forum communities.

The study prepared by ITI in collaboration with the Roscongress Foundation shows main trajectories of environmental agenda in global trade.

This paper by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) evaluates green stimulus packages that were introduced in response to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007-2008 and draws lessons relevant for greening the recovery from the COVID-19 crisis.

Tourism is one of the sectors most heavily affected by COVID-19. Experts believe that the industry will undergo significant restructuring, with travel abroad giving way to domestic tourism, and trips to places where people don’t gather in large numbers becoming more popular. According to Managing Director of the 21st Century Arctic International Union Valery Korovkin, current circumstances offer a chance to develop a new tourist destination. It is an area that has been discussed for a long time, but which little is currently being done to promote. Arctic tourism is a potentially highly profitable business from the perspective of federal and regional budgets, and has long been successfully exploited by other coastal nations.