New Joint Project Addresses Pollution in The Arctic

The multidisciplinary research project ICEBERG, led by the University of Oulu, studies pollution and its impacts on the ecosystems and communities in the next three years in three regions: Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard. First field studies have already started in Svalbard, according to the Finnish university.

The goal of the project is to co-develop resilience strategies to address pollution and climate change, via innovative community engagement. Finally, the project aims to create recommendations for better pollution-control governance.

“ICEBERG deals with a very topical issue which is the pollution of Arctic waters resulting from climate change and human activities. It’s an issue of global importance, because what happens in the Arctic might impact regions elsewhere on the planet,” says Docent Élise Lépy, the Project Manager of ICEBERG from University of Oulu.

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