Innovative Community Engagement for Building Effective Resilience and Arctic Ocean Pollution-control Governance in the Context of Climate Change.

ABOUT THE PROJECT.

Climate change and human activities have multifaceted and complex effects on land and ocean in the Arctic, posing significant threats to the ecosystem and human health. From 2024-2026, the ICEBERG project will study the interconnected effects of human-induced pollution and climate stressors on the Arctic ocean-land interface focusing on three regional case studies:  southern Greenland, western Svalbard and northern Iceland.

The project has a two-fold aim:
1) to assess sources, types, distributions, and impacts of pollution in combination with climate-induced stressors on ecosystems and communities in the European Arctic in the European Arctic’s land-ocean continuum using a One Health approach and

2) to co-design local  pollution- control strategies, which includes both mitigation (reducing pollution) and adaptation (reducing vulnerability to pollution) championing multi-stakeholder and gender-based approaches.

ICEBERG’s results will create novel governance approaches for pollution-control in the Arctic ocean-land continuum at multiple scales.

WoA is leading WP4 and is the Consortium’s dedicated project partner for the integration of a gender-dimension into its various WPs.

PARTNERS.