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Introducing the new ACAP Chair: “The Arctic becomes a part of you”
Patrick Huber is a specialist in some of the planet’s most pressing challenges: environmental and energy issues. As the new Chair of the Arctic Contaminants Action Progra...
18 Aug 2021
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Mercury from outside the Arctic is polluting the region
AMAP Working Group lays a scientific foundation while ACAP WG implements projects to stimulate actions to reduce emissions. This is how they work together to inspire chan...
10 May 2021
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The workhorses behind the success
The work of the Arctic Council is so intricately linked to its six Working Groups that it would be impossible to write about the Council’s accomplishments without referri...
10 May 2021
Community Solid Waste Management Resource Toolkit
The ACAP workshop Sharing Approaches on Community Solid and Hazardous Waste Management Within Arctic Indigenous Communities was held in Nome, Alaska, September 20- 22, 20...
03 Nov 2017
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Interview: Ulrik Westman, Chair of ACAP
Pursuing improved environmental performance and reducing contaminants in the Arctic requires endurance. Some of our projects have been active for over a decade, and I bel...
07 Aug 2017
Expanding local environmental observation efforts in the Arctic
Arctic Council Working Group ACAP (Arctic Contaminants Action Program) is working to expand the local environmental observer network, currently operating in North America...
07 Feb 2017
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Expanding local environmental observation efforts in the Arctic
Arctic Council Working Group ACAP (Arctic Contaminants Action Program) is working to expand the local environmental observer network, currently operating in North America...
07 Feb 2017
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ACAP workshop on CLEO Network beginning in Inari, Finland
Local observers can detect subtle changes in weather, landscapes and seascapes, and plant and animal communities. The Arctic Council is working to build a circumpolar net...
01 Jun 2016
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CLEO Workshop set to take place in Inari, June 2-3
On June 2-3, 2016 in Inari, Finland delegates will gather to discuss the first steps in expanding the LEO network to the Circumpolar region - CLEO. CLEO is a project unde...
30 May 2016
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Arctic Council's Black Carbon and Methane Work Highlighted at COP21
At the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21), in Paris, France, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iceland generously hosted and prepared a side event focused on the Arcti...
18 Dec 2015
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Interview with Ulrik Westman, ACAP Chair
A brief interview with Ulrik Westman, recently-appointed Chair of Working Group ACAP.
09 Oct 2015
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Historic meeting of Arctic Council Working Groups
In the week of 14-18 September, four of the Arctic Council's six Working Groups will be gathering simultaneously in Tromsø...
10 Sep 2015
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ACAP work to be presented at GLACIER conference
The ACAP report, delivered in 2015, highlights national and regional recommendations for reducing black carbon emissions from residential wood stoves...
25 Aug 2015
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