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The Cool North – getting warmer and busier

INTEGRITAS. ACTIVE EUROPEAN AND CORPORATE LIAISION SERVICES. The Cool North – getting warmer and busier. Steering a new course, Staying relevant and Sticking together September 2014. Frank Gaskell. INTEGRITAS. ACTIVE EUROPEAN AND CORPORATE LIAISION SERVICES. Steering a new course.

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The Cool North – getting warmer and busier

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  1. INTEGRITAS ACTIVE EUROPEAN AND CORPORATE LIAISION SERVICES The Cool North – getting warmer and busier Steering a new course, Staying relevant and Sticking together September 2014 Frank Gaskell

  2. INTEGRITAS ACTIVE EUROPEAN AND CORPORATE LIAISION SERVICES Steering a new course

  3. Circumpolar Regions per Canada & International Polar Year

  4. Circumpolar EU ?

  5. The Northern Periphery and Arctic Territory

  6. Ice and the Northern Sea Route – relentless progress? • 2010 – less ice = 4 transits • 2011 - less ice = 26 transits • 2012 – less ice = 46 transits • 2013 – 30% more ice = 71 transits BUT 2012 – 1.25m tonnes c.f. Suez 740 m tonnes !!! Suez capacity 76 vessels per 24 hours!!! BUT Chinese forecast May 2014 Nordic Meeting – • NSR to equal total current world container traffic by 2030 !!! • Total world traffic to triple by 2030 !!!

  7. Hard Minerals • Greenland • Dec 2010 Greenland approves rare earth oxides exploitation at Kvanefjeld • Kvanefjeld can provide 25% of world demand • now 2nd field at Kringlerne • Iron Ore and Uranium also shortly • Finland, Sweden and Norway • rich in various minerals • major European gold mine now at Kittila 2008 • Large infrastructure choices to be made

  8. Fisheries Prospects • One third of fish caught in the Arctic sold in European Market. • figure to increase as fish stocks move north • Arctic fishing voyages: 30 in 2005: 221 in 2010 Research suggests: • Incoming and native species can co-exist • Polar Cod may prosper

  9. Cruise Tourism : recent trend

  10. INTEGRITAS ACTIVE EUROPEAN AND CORPORATE LIAISION SERVICES New Challenge – New Programme

  11. OECD • A like-minded ally

  12. Priorities • Innovation • Entrepreneurship • Energy secure communities • Cultural and natural heritage

  13. Innovation

  14. University of the Arctic

  15. EU Arctic Access Project 2010 -2015

  16. Entrepreneurship

  17. Energy secure communities

  18. Cultural and natural heritage

  19. INTEGRITAS ACTIVE EUROPEAN AND CORPORATE LIAISION SERVICES Staying relevant

  20. The Challenge • To Keep Programme Relevant • How to monitor and anticipate inevitable changes in time to react ? • How to complement - not to collide with - other Northern programmes which each face the same foresight and coordination challenges ?

  21. Opportunities for High North Collaboration • Addressing accessibility challenges and opportunities • Know-how on supporting small and remote communities • Public service provision for remote communities • Responses to changing sea routes • Economic diversification • Cooperation in research, innovation and education on fisheries (and other key sectors) • Adaptation of key sectors to the effects of climate change • Sustainable development in small communities • Development of craft and creative industries • Development of key growth sectors, such as renewable energy and (on a smaller-scale cruise tourism) • Innovation and technology • R&D in key sectors • Maximising the value-added of resource based sectors • Education and training • Marketing and applying new technologies • Climate change and environmental protection • Adaptations and responses in remote and rural communities • Knowledge exchange

  22. INTEGRITAS ACTIVE EUROPEAN AND CORPORATE LIAISION SERVICES Sticking together “…the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.'' Rudyard Kipling

  23. Arctic Programmes’ Priorities comparedSource: EPRC

  24. North Sea Region Programme

  25. BotniaAtlantica CBC Programme

  26. Nord CBC Programme 2014-2020

  27. Karelia ENI Programme 2007-13

  28. Kolarctic ENI Programme 2007-13

  29. South East Finland Russia ENI Programme 2007-13

  30. Some other interlocutors / Arctic actors • Arctic Council Secretariat • Nordic Council of Ministers (including NORA) • Barents Euro-Arctic Council • Northern Dimension • NW-Russia Programme • Barents Secretariat • European Information Centre • University of the Arctic • Arctic Portal • Nordic Working Group on Sustainable Regional Development in the Arctic etc.

  31. A CoolNorth Programmes Mechanism ? • Multi - nodal and inclusive • Collaboration and foresight NOT • Coordination and oversight

  32. ‘the future is not some place we are going to, but one we create ourselves’John Schaar 1928-2011

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