Vulnerable Arctic - Warning signal of global warming

Exhibition

MEP Satu Hassi invites you to the
exhibition "Vulnerable Arctic - Warning Signal of Global Warming" 
at the European Parliament, ASP 3rd floor, Espace Bar, 6.–10.3.2006
See the exhibition online: Vulnerable Artic posters (pdf)

Opening reception on Tuesday 7.3.2006 at 18.30 
With Lappish specialities and traditional Sámi yoik
performed by Angelin Tytöt, from Lapland Finland 

Exhibition organised by
Satu Hassi and the Greens / EFA Group in the European Parliament
in cooperation with the AMAP Secretariat, Norway.

Findings on Climate Change based on "Impacts of a Warming Arctic" report by the Arctic Council

Seminar

"Arctic climate change - impacts globally and on the indigenous peoples"
on Wednesday 8.3.2006 at 16.30–19.00 at the European Parliament, room ASP 1G2

OPENING

• Minister for Environment Jan-Erik Enestam, Finland
• State Secretary Liv Monica Stubholt, Norway 

ARCTIC CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS GLOBAL IMPACTS

• Olav Orheim, Executive Secretary for the International Polar Year 2007-2008, Norway

THE GULF STREAM AND ARCTIC CLIMATE CHANGE

• Professor Harry Bryden, School of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Southampton, UK 

ARTIC CLIMATE CHANGE AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

• Jan Idar Solbakken, Sámi Council and Common Indigenous Peoples' Representative to the ACIA Executive Committee, Norway
• Pekka Aikio, President of the Finnish Sámi Parliament, Finland

For more detailed information on artic climate change:

• Artic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP)
• Artic Climat Impact Assessment (ACIA) reports
• Artic Council
• International Polar Foundation
• Vulnerable Artic