The project aims at supporting fair, transparent, and locally accepted green transition projects in the Arctic region. The project includes Nordic and Canadian partners.

The Nordic Council of Ministers has granted funding through the Nordic Arctic Programme to a project that focuses on fair green transition. Project is led by the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland and the partners are the Lapland University of Applied Sciences, Nord University (Norway), Luleå University of Technology (Sweden), and the University of Montréal (Canada).

The project Community-based Benefit-Sharing Toolkit for Arctic Green Transition (CoBest-Arctic) develops and pilots a community-based, rights-based benefit-sharing toolkit aimed at supporting fair, transparent, and locally accepted green transition projects in the Arctic region.

Through pilot activities carried out in cooperation with, among others, municipalities and reindeer herding communities, the project strengthens participation, trust, and decision-making capacity. The project will produce a widely applicable toolkit, monitoring tools, and dissemination of knowledge across the Nordic Arctic region, in cooperation with a transatlantic partner, in order to support responsible governance of energy production and land use.

The project has been awarded 500,000 Danish kroner, approximately 67,000 euros.

More information:

Professor Tanja Joona
Arctic Centre, University of Lapland
tanja.joona@ulapland.fi