{"id":1323,"date":"2024-02-02T12:13:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T11:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2024-02-02T12:13:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T11:13:57","slug":"why-the-world-should-take-note-of-what-happens-in-the-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1323","title":{"rendered":"Why the world should take note of what happens in the Arctic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Arctic is home to four million people across eight nations.\u00a0But the region\u2019s sparse population belies its importance to\u00a0the rest of the world.\u00a0This week, top politicians, scientists and\u00a0many others\u00a0met in Troms\u00f8 in the Arctic north of Norway for the Arctic Frontiers conference. On the agenda, new\u00a0geopolitical tensions, vast untapped natural resources, accelerating climate change and the rights\u00a0of indigenous peoples. Here is my report from Troms\u00f8 for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/inside-europe-2-february-2024\/audio-68147388\">Inside Europe on Deutsche Welle<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Store-Arctic-Frontiers-2024-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"716\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Store-Arctic-Frontiers-2024-1-1024x716.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1326\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Store-Arctic-Frontiers-2024-1-1024x716.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Store-Arctic-Frontiers-2024-1-300x210.png 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Store-Arctic-Frontiers-2024-1-768x537.png 768w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Store-Arctic-Frontiers-2024-1-1536x1073.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Norway&#8217;s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re is adamant the Nordic Council must carry on operating without Russia at the top table. Photo: Lars Bevanger<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/BEVANGER-Arctic-challenges.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arctic is home to four million people across eight nations.\u00a0But the region\u2019s sparse population belies its importance to\u00a0the rest of the world.\u00a0This week, top politicians, scientists and\u00a0many others\u00a0met in Troms\u00f8 in the Arctic north of Norway for the Arctic Frontiers conference. On the agenda, new\u00a0geopolitical tensions, vast untapped natural resources, accelerating climate change and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions\/1328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}