The 7th issue of the journal «Arctic Review» was represented during the IX annual meeting of the International Expert Council on Cooperation in the Arctic (IECCA).
On November 18, 2021, the IX annual meeting of the International Expert Council on Cooperation in the Arctic (IECCA) was held. During the event, experts from Norway, China, India, Australia, as well as from the International Maritime Organization of the United Nations, institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RSPP spoke. In total, representatives of 12 countries have registered, including 7 representatives of embassies (Finland, Iceland, India, Singapore, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Poland).
China is a "near-Arctic state", which today is an active player in the international political arena, including an active participant in international Arctic and economic cooperation. China's interests and demands in the Arctic region, which are largely due to the internal development of the republic.
The International Arctic Station "Snowflake" is a year-round and fully autonomous complex created on the basis of renewable energy sources and hydrogen energy, without diesel fuel.
"Snowflake" will use the energy of hydrogen, wind and the sun.
It was only in the XXI century, after the industrial boom of the XX century, when humanity extracted and used natural resources, without thinking about the impact of these actions on the environment, which, of course, affects the future of mankind, that they began to attach importance to environmental challenges. Humanity has to cope with many consequences of unresolved environmental problems today, not only at the regional level, but also at the global level.
The Northern Sea Transit Corridor project is to create an integrated transport and logistics system for international transit sea cargo transportation on the Asia–Europe route via the Northern Sea Route (NSR). It was initiated in the Rosatom State Corporation in 2019 with the aim of creating a new offer on the international market of logistics services for the delivery of goods between Northwestern Europe and East Asia through the NSR.