The Arctic – The ‘Weather Kitchen’. Key Quotes

This report presents the results of the 2018 Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) second assessment that deals with ocean acidification from an Arctic-wide perspective and complements several assessments that AMAP has delivered over past years.

Summary session «State Policy on Recruiting Personnel to Work in the Arctic» within the framework of the Arctic Talent Acquisition Conference, which took place on November 15-16, 2021 in Arkhangelsk.

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.

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.