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Arctic study to get more intense

Pinaki Roy from TYomso, Norway
The Arctic Council, a forum for climate issues and environmental protection, agreed on close and increased cooperation in carrying out research on the Arctic and identified a number of measures, including a binding guideline for ship operation and revising the guidelines for oil and gas exploration in the Arctic.
The council sat in its sixth ministerial level meeting yesterday when Arctic has been melting faster than anticipated in the past. Experts at the meeting predicted that it might be vanished within middle of this century if proper measures are not taken immediately. The Arctic Council is a forum for discussion between the five Nordic countries surrounding the Arctic Ocean, the US, Canada and Russia on how best to address the challenges in the Arctic.
In the meeting, the council representatives from the Arctic nations agreed on the issues as an emergency response to the scientific data presented at the conference at Tromso, the Arctic capital of Norway.
During the meeting, the two-and-a-half year Norwegian chairmanship was handed over to Denmark, which will be the chairman of the Arctic Council for next two years.
Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store chaired the session while former US Vice President Al Gore presented a report on melting ice at the high-level meeting. Later, Danish chairmanship was formally introduced to the press where Per Stig Moller, Danish foreign minister, represented Denmark.
Among the observers to the council are China, UK, France and European Commission. Around 300 high level representatives from the member states and other nations, observers and interested partners, media personnel attended the council meeting.
In his concluding speech, the Norwegian foreign minister stressed the need for formulating a new policy as human activities in the Arctic increase.
"I am therefore delighted that the Arctic Council today has agreed to focus on search and rescue in the Arctic, to recommend safety standards for maritime transport and oil and gas production in the Arctic, and to establish a taskforce to limit emissions of
non CO2 drivers of climate change, such as black carbon and methane, recognising their importance in Arctic climate change," he said.
"Denmark will have our full support in further enhancing the importance of the Arctic Council, being the only circumpolar organisation there is," said the Norwegian foreign minister.
He said we know that the Arctic ice is melting. This directly affects some four million people who live in the Arctic. But it also affects many more hundreds of millions of people in other parts of the world, he added.
The council will sit in Tromso, in next June, to continue a process of gathering scientific data that will provide input to the climate change conference in Copenhagen to be held at the end of the year.