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Ilulissat Declaration

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The Ilulissat Declaration was announced on May 28, 2008 by the five coastal states of the Arctic Ocean (United States, Russia, Canada, Norway and Denmark), meeting at the political level during the Arctic Ocean Conference in Ilulissat, Greenland to discuss the Arctic ocean, climate change, the protection of the marine environment, maritime safety, and division of emergency responsibilities if new shipping routes are opened. [1]

19 relations: Arctic cooperation and politics, Arctic Council, Arctic Ocean, Arctic Ocean Conference, Arktika 2007, Climate change, Gary Lunn, Greenland, Hans Enoksen, Hans Island, Ilulissat, John Negroponte, Jonas Gahr Støre, Per Stig Møller, Polar Geography, Sailing, Sea lane, Sergey Lavrov, Taylor & Francis.

Arctic cooperation and politics

Arctic cooperation and politics are partially coordinated via the Arctic Council, composed of the eight Arctic nations: the United States of America, Canada, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, and Denmark with Greenland and the Faroe Islands.

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Arctic Council

The Arctic Council is a high-level intergovernmental forum which addresses issues faced by the Arctic governments and people living in the Arctic region.

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Arctic Ocean

The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans.

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Arctic Ocean Conference

The inaugural Arctic Ocean Conference was held in Ilulissat, Greenland May 27 — May 29, 2008.

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Arktika 2007

Arktika 2007 (Российская полярная экспедиция "Арктика-2007") was a 2007 expedition in which Russia performed the first ever crewed descent to the ocean bottom at the North Pole, as part of research related to the 2001 Russian territorial claim, one of many territorial claims in the Arctic, made possible, in part, because of Arctic shrinkage.

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Climate change

Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years).

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Gary Lunn

Gary Vincent Lunn, (born May 8, 1957 in Trail, British Columbia) is a former Canadian Member of Parliament for the British Columbia riding of Saanich—Gulf Islands.

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Greenland

Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is an autonomous constituent country within the Kingdom of Denmark between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

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Hans Enoksen

Hans Enoksen (born 7 August 1956 in Itilleq, Greenland) is a Greenlandic politician who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Greenland from 2002 to 2009.

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Hans Island

Hans Island (Greenlandic: Tartupaluk; Inuktitut: ᑕᕐᑐᐸᓗᒃ; Île Hans; Hans Ø) is a small, uninhabited barren knoll measuring, long and wide, located in the centre of the Kennedy Channel of Nares Strait—the strait that separates Ellesmere Island from northern Greenland and connects Baffin Bay with the Lincoln Sea.

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Ilulissat

Ilulissat, formerly Jakobshavn or Jacobshaven, is the municipal seat and largest town of the Avannaata municipality in western Greenland, located approximately north of the Arctic Circle.

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John Negroponte

John Dimitri Negroponte (born July 21, 1939) is an American diplomat.

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Jonas Gahr Støre

Jonas Gahr Støre (born 25 August 1960) is a Norwegian politician and the leader of the Labour Party and the Leader of the Opposition.

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Per Stig Møller

Per Stig Møller (informal: Per Stig; born August 27, 1942 in Frederiksberg) is a Danish politician.

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Polar Geography

Polar Geography is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on the physical and human aspects of the Polar regions.

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Sailing

Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the water (sailing ship, sailboat, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ice (iceboat) or on land (land yacht) over a chosen course, which is often part of a larger plan of navigation.

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Sea lane

A sea lane, sea road or shipping lane is a regularly used route for vessels on oceans and large lakes.

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Sergey Lavrov

Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (Серге́й Ви́кторович Лавро́в,; born 21 March 1950) is a Russian diplomat and politician; he is currently the Foreign Minister of Russia, in office since 2004.

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Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilulissat_Declaration

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