
L'Arctique en première ligne
L'année dernière, les températures dans le cercle Arctique ont atteint leurs niveaux les plus élevés jamais enregistrés.
Professor Gail Whiteman is Director of the Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business, a scientific member of the European Union’s Ice, Climate, Economics – Arctic Research on Change project, and Professor-in-Residence at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Professor Whiteman also created the Arctic Basecamp at Davos 2017.
L'année dernière, les températures dans le cercle Arctique ont atteint leurs niveaux les plus élevés jamais enregistrés.
Arctic old ice - the ice that stays throughout the summer - is shrinking rapidly. It plays a vital role in regulating the planet's climate, and its loss would be catastrophic. It's time t...
While the Arctic holds only 1% of the world’s ocean volume and occupies only 3% of the world’s ocean surface area, its impact on the global climate system is disproportionately large.
It's not just freezing temperatures across Europe that have scientists worried. The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the globe - a worrying trend and a clear sign that now i...
Here are three key reasons why melting in Greenland poses significant global economic risks.
Financial performance isn’t the only barometer of global economic risk. Rapid changes in the Arctic are a warning sign that our social-ecological-economic system is out of whack.
We live in a connected world, and what happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic.