Sandra Cavalieri, Senior Fellow and Coordinator for the Arctic and Transatlantic programs at the Ecologic Institute in Berlin, discusses the importance of environmental protection in the Arctic and how efforts in this area compete with interests of resource exploitation. She stresses the importance of developing common guidelines that will allow states to act in an environmentally friendly way in the Arctic.
These interviews result from a two-day conference (Sept. 22-23): The European Union, Canada and the Arctic: International Policy on the Arctic, supported by Carleton University’s Centre for European Studies (European Union Centre of Excellence) and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.