Transcript Frank_Gaskell-Cool_Northx - Northern Periphery Programme

INTEGRITAS
ACTIVE EUROPEAN AND
CORPORATE LIAISION
SERVICES
The Cool North – getting warmer and
busier
Steering a new course, Staying relevant and Sticking together
September 2014
Frank Gaskell
INTEGRITAS
ACTIVE EUROPEAN AND
CORPORATE LIAISION
SERVICES
Steering a new course
Circumpolar Regions
per Canada & International Polar Year
Circumpolar EU ?
The Northern Periphery and Arctic Territory
Ice and the Northern Sea Route – relentless progress?
o 2010 – less ice = 4 transits
o 2011 - less ice = 26 transits
o 2012 – less ice = 46 transits
o 2013 – 30% more ice = 71 transits
BUT
2012 – 1.25m tonnes c.f. Suez 740 m tonnes !!!
Suez capacity 76 vessels per 24 hours!!!
BUT
Chinese forecast May 2014 Nordic Meeting –
o NSR to equal total current world container traffic by 2030 !!!
o Total world traffic to triple by 2030 !!!
Hard Minerals
• Greenland
o Dec 2010 Greenland approves rare earth oxides
exploitation at Kvanefjeld
o Kvanefjeld can provide 25% of world demand
o now 2nd field at Kringlerne
o Iron Ore and Uranium also shortly
• Finland, Sweden and Norway
o rich in various minerals
o major European gold mine now at Kittila 2008
• Large infrastructure choices to be made
Fisheries Prospects
• One third of fish caught in the Arctic sold in European Market.
• figure to increase as fish stocks move north
• Arctic fishing voyages: 30 in 2005: 221 in 2010
Research suggests:
• Incoming and native species can co-exist
• Polar Cod may prosper
Cruise Tourism : recent trend
INTEGRITAS
ACTIVE EUROPEAN AND
CORPORATE LIAISION
SERVICES
New Challenge – New Programme
OECD
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A like-minded ally
Priorities
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Innovation
Entrepreneurship
Energy secure communities
Cultural and natural heritage
Innovation
University of the Arctic
EU Arctic Access Project 2010 -2015
Entrepreneurship
Energy secure communities
Cultural and natural heritage
INTEGRITAS
ACTIVE EUROPEAN AND
CORPORATE LIAISION
SERVICES
Staying relevant
The Challenge
o To Keep Programme Relevant
 How to monitor and anticipate inevitable
changes in time to react ?
 How to complement - not to collide with - other
Northern programmes which each face the
same foresight and coordination challenges ?
Opportunities for High North Collaboration
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Addressing accessibility challenges and opportunities
– Know-how on supporting small and remote communities
– Public service provision for remote communities
– Responses to changing sea routes
Economic diversification
– Cooperation in research, innovation and education on fisheries (and other key sectors)
– Adaptation of key sectors to the effects of climate change
– Sustainable development in small communities
– Development of craft and creative industries
– Development of key growth sectors, such as renewable energy and (on a smaller-scale
cruise tourism)
Innovation and technology
– R&D in key sectors
– Maximising the value-added of resource based sectors
– Education and training
– Marketing and applying new technologies
Climate change and environmental protection
– Adaptations and responses in remote and rural communities
– Knowledge exchange
INTEGRITAS
ACTIVE EUROPEAN AND
CORPORATE LIAISION
SERVICES
Sticking together
“…the strength of the pack is the wolf,
and the strength of the wolf is the pack.''
Rudyard Kipling
Arctic Programmes’ Priorities compared
Source: EPRC
North Sea Region Programme
Botnia Atlantica CBC Programme
Nord CBC Programme 2014-2020
Karelia ENI Programme 2007-13
Kolarctic ENI Programme 2007-13
South East Finland Russia ENI Programme
2007-13
Some other interlocutors / Arctic actors
o Arctic Council Secretariat
o Nordic Council of Ministers (including
NORA)
o Barents Euro-Arctic Council
o Northern Dimension
o NW-Russia Programme
o Barents Secretariat
o European Information Centre
o University of the Arctic
o Arctic Portal
o Nordic Working Group on Sustainable
Regional Development in the Arctic etc.
A Cool North Programmes Mechanism ?
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Multi - nodal and inclusive
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Collaboration and foresight
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Coordination and oversight
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‘the future is not some place we are going
to, but one we create ourselves’
John Schaar 1928-2011