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UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Plastic Pollution

Joan Fabres Presentation to UArctic Council 4 September 2018

Arctic Plastic Pollution

• Sources
• Land-based & sea-based
• Local & distant
• Pathways and distribution
• Impacts of plastic pollution
• Biota, habitats & ecosystems
• Economies, people & culture
• Responses
• Policy
• Actions and solutions

Members & experts

Joan Fabres Kriss Rokkan Iversen Jakob Strand Melanie Bergmann Ásta Margrét Ásmundsdóttir Liza Mack Ludmila Ivanova Stefano Aliani

• GRID-Arendal
• UiT The Arctic University of Norway
• Århus University
• Alfred-Wegener Insitute
• University of Akureyri
• Aleut International Association
• IES- Kola Science Centre RAS
• CNR-ISMAR

Goals and benefits

• Networking, knowledge exchange and cooperation:
• Across boundaries
• Across disciplines
• Collaborate with other Thematic Networks
• Arctic WASH
• Arctic Coastal Communities for Sustainability
• Arctic Fisheries and Aquaculture
• Support the work of the Arctic Council
• Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME)
• Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP)

Planned activities

• Compendium of circum-polar research on plastic pollution
• International conference on Arctic plastic pollution
• Developing synergies with other groups to organise:
• events (or side-events to bigger events) &
• workshops on this topic (or certain detailed aspects)
• Identification of funding sources/calls for joint research

proposals

• Development of specialized university courses
• Knowledge exchange & citizen science program with coastal

communities

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