Ethics Advisor for the JUSTNORTH Consortium

Ecologic Institute supports the Horizon 2020 project "Towards a Just, Ethical, and Sustainable Arctic" (JUSTNORTH) with Arne Riedel as an Ethics advisor. His role includes inter alia

• review of the procedures regarding personal data, incl. the project's data management plan and CMS design;
• review of requirements regarding research activities outside the EU and EEA;
• review of the internal Ethics reports of case study research teams;
• assessing the 6 months periodic reports of the project;
• highlighting ethical challenges within the conducted research and the final deliverables.

The general approach of JUSTNORTH aims to build a framework for sustainable development in the Arctic. It raises questions of whether the decisions on the development of Arctic resources are ethically right or wrong for people and the environment of the Arctic. The project team developed 17 case studies to examine the developments of economic activities in the Arctic, and brought in values of Arctic stakeholders and rightsholders to define the starting point for sustainability and to analyse the justice implications for economic activities in the Arctic.