The Arctic is heating at four times the rate of the rest of the planet, and is a key indicator region for mapping the impacts of the climate crisis. Glacial melt is predicted to contribute to disastrous rates of sea-level rise which will have catastrophic impacts on global cities, coastal communities and the millions of people who live there. It is crucial that we do everything we can in our cities to ensure that the Arctic does have a future…because all of our futures depend on it.

Image Credit: Photo by Roxanne Desgagnés on Unsplash

Featured in this episode: Xuemei Bai, distinguished professor for Urban Environment and Human Ecology at the Australian National University

Featured guests:
Al Pace is one of Canada’s most accomplished Arctic river guides. He co-founded Canoe North Adventures with his wife, Lin, in 1987, and has been taking people into the far north of Canada by canoe and raft ever since. In the off season, Al is the owner of The Farmhouse Pottery where he crafts beautiful stoneware.

Dr Victoria Herrmann is a Senior Fellow at The Arctic Institute. In 2022, she was named as one of the top 100 most influential people in climate policy worldwide by the Apolitical Group. She led the America’s Eroding Edges project, and she is currently working on the initiative, Preserving Legacies: A Future for Our Past. Dr Herrmann is a bastion of hope for the work that can and must be done for the Arctic.

Links
Last-minute pledges and sobering science: Where is the World, Post-COP28? Cities 1.5 podcast
Sea of methane sealed beneath Arctic permafrost could trigger climate feedback loop if it escapes - Live Science
15 towns and cities starting new cooperation across the Arctic - Arctic Urban Regional Cooperation (AURC) progr

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