Northern Forum Activity Report from January 2018 to October 2018
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Northern Forum Activity Report from January 2018 to October 2018 2018 Contents ACRONYM LIST .................................................................................................... 4 INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................... 6 1. NF MERMBERSHIP ............................................................................................ 6 1.1 Member regions of NF ........................................................................................ 6 1.2 Board of Governors ............................................................................................................................. 8 1.3 Regional Coordinators Committee (RCC) ............................................................................................ 8 1.4 Working Groups .................................................................................................................................. 9 1.5 Business Partnership ......................................................................................................................... 10 1.6 Secretariat ......................................................................................................................................... 11 2. NF MEETINGS ................................................................................................... 11 2.1 XIII GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTHERN FORUM, April 11-12, 2018, Krasnoyarsk, Russia ...................................................................................... 11 2.1.1 Quorum and Participants ............................................................................................................... 12 2.1.2 Meeting of the Board of Governors ............................................................................................... 12 2.1.3 Welcomes to participants .............................................................................................................. 13 2.1.4 Speeches by invited participants .................................................................................................... 13 2.2 Regional Coordinators Committee Meeting ..................................................... 14 2.3 NF Roundtables ................................................................................................. 14 2.3.1 “Strategy of the Northern Forum: Present and Future” ................................................................ 14 2.3.2 The Northern Forum Projects Presentation ................................................................................... 15 2.3.3 "The Strategy of the Northern Forum - Strengthening the Voice of Northern Regions Governments" ......................................................................................................................................... 18 2.4 Working Meetings ............................................................................................. 18 • January 15-17, 2018 – Project «APPLICATE» General Assembly .................................................... 18 • January 21-26, 2018 – Arctic Frontiers 2018 – Connecting the Arctic, Tromso, Norway ............... 19 • February 15, 2018 – The fourth scientific and practical conference "School of Life in the North" 19 • February 26-28, 2018 – "Model of the Northern Forum" ............................................................... 19 • February 27 – March 2, 2018 года – UIC Arctic Business Development Tour ................................ 20 • March 14 – 15, 2018 – International Inclusive SMART-АRT Festival “Show Yourself” ................... 20 • March 14-15, 2018 - V International Conference “Fishing in the Arctic: Modern Challenges, International Practice, Prospectives” ...................................................................................................... 20 • March 15, 2018 – The 5th Interregional and Cross-border Cooperation Working Group of Intergovernmental Norwegian-Russian Commission on Economic, Industrial and Scientific-Technical Cooperation ............................................................................................................................................. 20 • 06-10 April 2018 –ARCTICSKILLS International Workshop and Competitions ................................ 21 2 • July 11, 2018, – Meeting with Natalia Slugina, Head of Chukotka International Relations Department, NF Regional Coordinator ................................................................................................... 21 • 8-10 June 2018 – Ugra International Festival of Indigenous Handicrafts of the World .................. 22 June 30, 2018 – Memorandum of Understanding on Ethnosport .......................................................... 23 • 30 June 2018 – Ugra Governor’s Cup on Oblas Rowing .................................................................. 23 • August 12 - 15, 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark – 17th International Congress on Circumpolar Health ...................................................................................................................................................... 24 • August 22, 2018 – Meeting with a Finnish delegation in Yakutsk .................................................. 24 • August 29-31, 2018 – International seminar "Atlas of renewable energy in the Arctic " ............... 25 • September 7-8, 2018 - Festival of Northern Fishing Traditions ...................................................... 27 • October 6-10, 2018 - IX Youth Ecological Forum (YEF) "The Voice of Youth of Northern Regions for Biodiversity Conservation" ................................................................................................................ 27 • October 8, 2018 г. - Northern Forum’s Working Group on Environment and Biodiversity Meeting 28 • October 9, 2018 – Meeting with a LEO Network ............................................................................ 29 • October 21, 2018 – Roundtable "The Strategy of the Northern Forum - Strengthening the Voice of Northern Regions Governments", Reykjavik, Iceland ......................................................................... 30 • October 25-26, 2018, Berlin - Second Arctic Science Ministerial (ASM2). ...................................... 31 3. PROJECT ACTIVITIES ..................................................................................... 31 4. ARCTIC COUNCIL ........................................................................................... 54 PAME Working Group Meeting (PAME I-2018), Quebec City, Canada, February 12-14 ........................ 54 The Arctic Council’s SDWG Meeting, Kittilä, Finland, March 19-20 ........................................................ 55 Arctic Biodiversity Congress 2018, Rovaniemi, Finland, October 9-12 ................................................... 55 The Arctic Council’s SDWG Meeting, Rovaniemi, Finland, October 29................................................... 58 Third Senior Arctic Officials plenary meeting during the Finnish Chairmanship ............................. 62 5. NF REPRESENTATION AT EVENTS ............................................................ 64 6. BUDGET ............................................................................................................. 65 7. 2018 MAIN RESULTS ....................................................................................... 65 8. YEAR-END PROPOSALS ................................................................................. 67 9. THE NORTHERN FORUM WORK PLAN FOR 2019 .................................... 70 3 ACRONYM LIST NF NORTHERN FORUM ACAP ARCTIC CONTAMINANTS ACTION PROGRAM WORKING GROUP (1 OF 6 ARCTIC COUNCIL’S WORKING GROUPS) AMAP ARCTIC MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT PROGRAM WORKING GROUP (1 OF 6 ARCTIC COUNCIL’S WORKING GROUPS) APPLICATE ADVANCED PREDICTION IN POLAR REGIONS AND BEYOND: MODELLING, OBSERVING SYSTEM DESIGN AND LINKAGES ASSOCIATED WITH A CHANGING ARCTIC CLIMATE (A PROJECT FINANCED BY THE EU HORIZON 2020 RESEARCH AND INNOVATION PROGRAMME) AREA ARCTIC RENEWABLE ENERGY ATLAS (SDWG PROJECT) ARENA ARCTIC REMOTE ENERGY NETWORKS ACADEMY (SDWG PROJECT) CAFF CONSERVATION OF ARCTIC FLORA AND FAUNA WORKING GROUP (1 OF 6 ARCTIC COUNCIL’S WORKING GROUPS) CLEO CIRCUMPOLAR LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL OBSERVER NETWORK (АСАР) EALLU ARCTIC INDIGENOUS YOUTH, CLIMATE CHANGE AND FOOD CULTURE (SDWG PROJECT) EPPR EMERGENCY PREVENTION PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE WORKING GROUP (1 OF 6 ARCTIC COUNCIL’S WORKING GROUPS) IASC INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC SCIENCE COMMITTEE PAME PROTECTION OF THE ARCTIC MARINE ENVIRONMENT WORKING GROUP (1 OF 6 ARCTIC COUNCIL’S WORKING GROUPS) RAIPON RUSSIAN ASSOCIATION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE NORTH 4 RCC REGIONAL COORDINATORS COMMITTEE (NORTHERN FORUM) SAO SENIOR ARCTIC OFFICIAL (ARCTIC COUNCIL) SDWG SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT WORKING GROUP (1 OF 6 ARCTIC COUNCIL’S WORKING GROUPS) SECNET SIBERIAN ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE NETWORK SLICA SURVEY OF LIVING CONDITIONS IN THE ARCTIC (ARCTIC COUNCIL’S PROJECT) UIC UKPEAĠVIK IÑUPIAT CORPORATION WASH IMPROVING HEALTH IN ARCTIC COMMUNITIES THROUGH SAFE AND AFFORDABLE ACCESS TO HOUSEHOLD RUNNING WATER AND SEWER: WATER, SANITATION AND HEALTH (SDWG PROJECT) 5 INTRODUCTION Nenets Autonomous Krai assumed the Chairmanship in the Northern Forum after XIII General Assembly of the Northern Forum, which was held on April 11-12, 2018, in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Transitional period this year coincided with elections of state governors in Russia, and it led to changes in the list of Northern