The United Nations climate conference began in Paris on
November 30th. It is loaded with extremely high expectations and for two weeks it
will be at the centre of the world’s attention.

The Arctic
Centre at the University of Lapland is participating in the conference on Saturday
December 5th, in a side event called Arctic Lessons, which will deal with Arctic
climate research and the recommendations given to politicians on the grounds of the
research. Ilona Mettiäinen, an Arctic Centre researcher, will be talking in the
event about regional and local action plans on how to accommodate with climate
change in the Arctic.

The main organizer of the side event
is the University of Tromsø and Rector Anne Husebekk. Universities from other Nordic
countries are also included: in addition to Tromsø, also the universities of
Reykjavik, Aarhus, Umeå and Lapland. The event is an example of international
cooperation between leading Nordic universities in Arctic research.

“This is an exceptional opportunity to introduce my own research topic
to the participants of the most important meeting of the world together with top
Nordic researchers”, says Mettiäinen.

The Paris conference
is expected to gather around 10000 delegates from different countries, 14000
delegates from various observer organizations and more than 3000 representatives of
media during the two conference weeks.

Additional information:

Ilona
Mettiäinen, Researcher
Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland
ilona.mettiainen[at]ulapland.fi
tel. +358 40 4844 273

Links:

“Arctic lessons” event on the Uniiversity of Tromsø website:
https://uit.no/prosjekter/prosjekt?p_document_id=441623


The Facebook page of the “Arctic lessons”:

https://www.facebook.com/events/144151345942871/