Green Growth Dialogue

“Sustainable Shipping in the West Nordic Region” 28-31 May 2016 Ilisimatusarfik – The University of –

Introduction to the workshop

The Green Growth Dialogue is the name of a new West Nordic-Canadian network and a series of workshops in the region. It is also part of a new joint Master’s programme in West Nordic Studies, Governance and Sustainable Management which began in August 2015. The Green Growth Workshop will also function as an intensive 5 ECTS points Master’s level course for the students in the programme WNS.

The third Green Growth Dialogue workshop in Nuuk will focus on the theme of “Sustainable Shipping in the West Nordic Region”. Greenland is perhaps the most challenged economy of all West Nordic countries due to its geography, demography, and developmental stage. This workshop will pay special attention to Greenland’s opportunities and barriers for green growth. Sustainable shipping represents a distinct challenge for Greenland and is central to Greenland’s development path – as well as the other West Nordic countries. Shipping is central to the fishing, transportation, and tourism industries, which the West Nordic economies are highly dependent on.

The workshop format is two full days (30-31 May) with a morning and an afternoon session on a specific topic. The workshop will also include a study trip in relation to the topic (28 May). The workshop sessions will begin with a key note presentation to frame the following dialogue, which will deal with specific questions and challenges and will mix the participants in groups, so people meet and talk with people they do not usually talk with. The first two workshops have had good feedback from this format. Furthermore, the host country will be able to present own cases, but it is expected that cases have broader scope and applicability in the whole West Nordic region. Canadian researchers will contribute with broader theoretical and empirical experience.

We invite public and private stakeholders to participate in dialogue about shipping, and we also invite young people and entrepreneurs to join the workshop and lead their own discussions on other themes not necessarily related to sustainable shipping, but broadly under the main theme of green growth.

The workshop will produce working papers for policy makers and provide feedback and insight to further research on green growth and the transition to a sustainable economy.

Participation is free, but please sign up by 1 April 2016 to Maria Ackrén, [email protected]

For information about the Master’s course or ideas about other discussions please contact Lau Blaxekjær, [email protected]

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Green Growth and the West Nordic – Canadian Network

Green growth is a recent global phenomenon and approach to the necessary transformation to a sustainable and green economy. Denmark and the rest of the Nordic countries have taken the lead in developing green growth in practice from the highest level of national priority and foreign policy to regional and local level, where new green growth public-private collaborations have emerged in the past few years. There are good opportunities for the West Nordic countries (including Canada) for drawing on this knowledge and experiences to move towards green growth, tailored to the specific needs and challenges of this region. To get a better and deeper understanding of green growth, barriers and opportunities for the West Nordic Region, the new West Nordic – Canadian research-based network (supported by NORA) will facilitate dialogue on green growth with relevant public and private actors. Green growth is a relatively new approach (for policy and business alike) in the West Nordic Region, but there are a growing number of local projects and experiments developing – also with the support of NORA. The network will contribute with creating stronger connections and learning between the universities and the surrounding societies. The network establishment took place as a workshop in Tórshavn 27-28 April 2015, with participants from West Nordic universities, political, industry, and civil society representatives. The second workshop took place in Reykjavik 24-26 August 2015 including participation by 16 West Nordic Studies master’s students. Furthermore, partners from Canadian universities (McGill University, Toronto University, Ottawa University, and Royal Roads University) have joined the network, and given keynote presentations and helped facilitate dialogue and development of the network. These researchers all have strong knowledge and practical experience related to topics like the transformation to the green economy, transdisciplinary research and education, and dialogue with society (including the business sector).

The project coordinator, Lau Blaxekjær, is a leading researcher on green growth, and has previously worked together with the invited Canadian researchers through a research stay at McGill University, and participation in the international network, the Earth System Governance Project. Lau is also engaged with the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an external consultant assisting with the development of global green growth partnerships.

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Saturday 28 May 2016:

9-16 Excursion in the Godthåbsfjord / Nuuk Fjord

Meeting place: Atlantic harbour, where the large ships are and containers are. We need to be in the harbour at 8:45 at the latest!

We will take a boat trip to the Icefiord/Kangersuneq in Nuuk and look at the icebergs coming down from the glacier or ice cap. After lunch we continue to Qoornoq, which is an abandoned settlement, where we can walk around and imagine how life has been at this settlement.

During the tour there will be opportunities to see some of the Greenlandic animals, such as, seabirds, seals, whales and even caribous if we are lucky enough.

Here is a link to the site and travel agent we are using: http://tupilaktravel.gl/en/turist/tours/

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Sunday 29 May 2016:

9-16 Intensive course for the students and others, Ilisimatusarfik/

Room: Auditorium at Ilisimatusarfik, Manitooq 1, 3905

This course will offer students a necessary reflexive, critical, and practical understanding of green growth and engaged scholarship. The course takes place in connection with a three day Green Growth Dialogue Workshop focusing on a specific topic. Students and researchers from partnering West Nordic Universities will engage with public and private actors to discuss what green growth means in practice and how West Nordic societies can and should transition to more sustainable economies.

Literature: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fdbsu57zc95l7f8/AADuJKiJCo7pJGndLSvm5GF0a?dl=0

At the end of the course the students will be able to: · Describe, analyse and discuss different approaches to green growth. · Describe, discuss, and apply an engaged scholarship methodology. · Demonstrate skills in taking field notes presented as a field diary. · Present academic reflections about own dialogue with society on a given topic.

Course programme:

9-12 What is Green Growth? Blaxekjær, L. (2015). The Emergence and Spread of Green Growth. In: Transscalar Governance of Climate Change: An Engaged Scholarship Approach. Copenhagen: Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen PhD series 2015/8.42 pages.

Gallie, W. B. (1956) ‘Essentially Contested Concepts’. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. 56, 167- 198. 32 pages.

Zysman, J. and M. Huberty (eds.) (2014) Can Green Sustain Growth? From Religion to the Reality of Sustainable Prosperity. Stanford: Stanford University Press.  Preface, xi-xiv, 4 pages, Ch. 1, pp 3-25, 23 pages (notes, 2 p), Ch. 14, pp 247-256, 10 pages

Jacobs, M. (2013) ‘Green Growth’, in Robert Falkner (ed.), The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy, Oxford: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, pp.197–214. 18 pages.

OECD, 2011. Towards Green Growth. Chapter 1 and 2, pp 17-83, 67 pages. Read online

Runnalls, D. (2011) ‘Environment and Economy: joined at the hip or just strange bedfellows?’, S.A.P.I.EN.S 4.2, Vol.4 / n°2. 10 pages. Available at

12-13 Lunch

13-16 What is Engaged Scholarship?

Van de Ven, A. (2007). Engaged Scholarship: A Guide for Organizational and Social Research. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 299 pages.

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Monday 30 May 2016 – SUSTAINABLE SHIPPING Room: Auditorium at Ilisimatusarfik

9.00 Registration and coffee 9.15 Opening session Welcome by University of Greenland Prayer and drums, Chief Gordon Planes and Andrew Moore, T’sou-ke First Nation

Introduction - who are we? - the workshop, format, purposes, programme 9.45 Sustainable Shipping in relation to the IMO and UNFCCC, Gilberto Arias, Panama and UK 10.15 Greenlandic / West Nordic challenges and sustainability issues, Karl Zinglersen and Ole Gertz-Hansen from Institute of Natural Resources 10.45 Coffee and tea 11.00 Workshop in four groups. Based on the above presentations and participants own specialised knowledge and experiences, we will discuss sustainable shipping from the different perspectives of four groups. Each group will seek to answer the questions of how do we maximise sustainable development and how do we do this in the short, medium and long term:

G1: Arctic Coastal Communities and Indigenous Peoples (Facilitators: Leslie, Gordon and Andrew)

G2: Finance, investments, insurance, and green bonds (Facilitators: Nico and Lára)

G3: Science-Policy-Society relationships and joint projects (Facilitators: Gilberto and Maria)

G4: The built environment, infrastructure, cities, practical and geophysical perspective (Facilitators: Karl and Ole)

12.30 Lunch 13.30 Workshop in four groups – continued – but as a walk and talk to get some fresh air. 14.30 Coffee and tea. 15.00 Groups will wrap up and prepare their plenary presentations 15.30 Plenary presentations, then dialogue exploring the different perspectives and their commonalities in criteria and approaches. 16.45 Summary and wrapping up 19.00 Conference dinner

Place: Charoen Porn, Thai Restaurant besides HHE.

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Tuesday 31 May 2016 – Green Growth Projects: Knowledge sharing and new projects Room: Auditorium at Ilisimatusarfik

9.00 Registration and coffee 9.15 Introduction - who are we? - the workshop, format, purposes, programme 9.30 Presentation of new University of the Arctic Thematic Network: “Arctic Coastal Communities for Sustainability” (Lau Blaxekjær, network leader)

Input from participants: - Indigenous Solar Communities, Gordon Planes and Andrew Moore - Green Student-House (housing and learning-labs), Martin Mohr Olsen, University of the Faroe Islands - Aqua-culture and other coastal projects, Gilberto Arias 12.00 Lunch 13.00 Discussion of a joint application for the Nordforsk call on Green Growth Research and Innovation https://www.nordforsk.org/en/funding/utlysninger/call-for-proposals-the-nordic- green-growth-research-and-innovation-programme 14.30 Coffee and tea 15.00 Discussion of a joint application for the Nordforsk call on Green Growth Research and Innovation 16.00 Summary and wrap-up of the Nuuk Workshop

Song and drums

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Keynote speakers:

Gilberto Arias

Gilberto Arias was educated at the University of Virginia (Philosophy, Economics) and Cambridge (Law). A former diplomat, Gilberto was appointed in 2009 Panamá’s Ambassador to the Court of Saint James, in which position he led the Panamanian delegations at the International Maritime Organization and UNFCCC. He has worked with a number of other climate change negotiating delegations, including the Dominican Republic and the Marshall Islands, as well as doing extensive policy writing on climate law, climate change and the international maritime transport sector. At IMO and UNFCCC, Gilberto acted as principal focal point on issues regarding emissions for the international shipping sector on behalf of the world’s Largest merchant marine fleet. Gilberto continues his assistance to the IMO Secretariat, including acting as lead author to IMO’s “Concept of a Sustainable Maritime Transportation System”; and he has supported the Republic of Marshall Islands’ engagement of progressive maritime emissions policies at IMO.

Chief Gordon Planes and Andrew Moore of the T’Sou-ke First Nation. T'Sou-ke First Nation is governed by the chief and two councillors under the Indian Act election system. Elections are held every two years. The last election was held in February 2014. T'Sou-ke Chief & Council makes laws, approves revenue and spending measures and sets the direction for policies and initiatives in our community. Chief Gord Planes has now been in the position for four terms since 2008. He is secretary of Naut'sa mawt Tribal Council and also serves as a director on the Lands Advisory Board which oversees First Nations land management across Canada. http://tsoukenation.com/

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Surrounded by electric cars recharging are: Andrew Moore, Chief Planes with sundial, Bob Haugen of Solar City, MLA Mike Bernier and Colwood Mayor Carol Hamilton

Karl Zinglersen and Ole Gertz-Hansen

Karl Zinglersen is employed as GIS manager and database expert at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources in the Department of Environment and Mineral Resources. He has insight into mapping of the Arctic using technologies of land surveying, satellite remote sensing and airborne or UAS data capture.

Ole Geertz-Hansen is employed at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources in the Department of Environment and Mineral Resources advising the Greenland Government on environmental issues relating to oil and mineral exploration and exploitation.

Important Links:

Inuk Hostels: http://inukhostels.com/da/ : http://www.hhe.gl/forside/ Charoen Porn: http://atasteofgreenland.com/blog/charoen-porn-thai-food-in-the-heart-of-nuuk/ Visit Greenland: http://www.greenland.com/da/ : https://www.airgreenland.gl/ Air Iceland: https://www.airiceland.dk/ Ilisimatusarfik: http://www.uni.gl/ Greenland Institute of Natural Resources: http://www.natur.gl/ Nuuk map: http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/google_map_Nuuk.htm Nuup bussii: http://www.bus.gl/ Taxi: Phone: 36 36 36 or 321 321

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