Arctic Council Research Paper

The Arctic is a region at the top of the globe consisting of Canada, the United States of America, Finland, Denmark (Greenland), Russia, Iceland, Sweden, and Norway. These countries form the Arctic council and are responsible for protecting and managing the affairs within the Arctic. The main reason that there is a Council is because it makes progress in the Arctic more productive and it is easier to manage the Arctic when there is a specific body set up to manage the Arctic. When all of the countries are working together to develop an international policy to manage the Arctic more will get done because they will all be working together. One of the main issues facing the Arctic is climate change. On the issue of climate change and how it affects …show more content…
In doing so this essay will argue that there is a relationship between transnationalism and climate change (i.e. climate change has no borders and thus effects everywhere), so the Arctic countries must with the non-Arctic countries to combat climate change. To strengthen this argument this essay will be divided into three sections: In the first section, I will examine what the Arctic Council is, how it functions, and some of the history behind the Arctic Council. In the second section, I will examine the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, and how it has changed the way many countries think about the Arctic and climate change. In the third section, I will examine how climate change is affecting the Arctic, and also how these consequences affect the ecosystems not just in the Arctic but within the rest of the world, and what all of this means for the rest of the world. Finally, in the fourth section, I will overview the idea of transnationalism and the way in which migration and climate change are