Why US climate hostility might be a bigger threat to Arctic Council cooperation than security tensions

Even after Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea, Arctic nations were able to work together in the Arctic Council. But U.S. disputes over climate change language could undermine that.

By Martin Breum May 3, 2019
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The Trump Administration’s reluctance to recognize climate change as a major problem in the Arctic is currently frustrating negotiations in the run-up to the important bi-annual meeting of the Arctic foreign ministers that will take place in Rovaniemi, the main city in Finland’s Arctic region, on Tuesday May 7.

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