Environmental Security in the Arctic

Project
Duration: Jan 2010 - Jul 2011

Ecologic Institute cooperates on researching the "Environmental Security in the Arctic Ocean". The work culminates in a NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) and a book that addresses the prevention of conflicts in relation to scarcity of resources, and threats to environmental security with implications for economic, cultural and political instability. The project's main sponsor is the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme (SPS).

Building on the results of the Arctic Transform project on Transatlantic Policy Options for Supporting Adaptation in the Marine Arctic, and the EU Arctic Footprint and Policy Assessment, Ecologic Institute collaborates with the Scott Polar Research Institute of Cambridge University, and the Legal Department of the Council for the Study of Productive Resources of the Russian Academy of Sciences as ARW co-directors.

The goal of the research and AWR is to engage scientists, international law authorities and policymakers in characterising environmental security risks and define institutional and other solutions to jointly meet possible threats in the Arctic Ocean. Specific objectives are to:

identify and assess environmental security risks against the background of international governance challenges in this globally-relevant region; and
consider opportunities and institutional options for cooperation, including perpetuating science as a tool of diplomacy, to resolve environmental security risks in the Arctic Ocean.

The research and workshop results are to be published as a book.

Aligning Asset Management with Cause

Year 2011

Publication:Report

"Germany may well be regarded as the nation where the endgame of nuclear power began." Economics, risk assessments and public pressure lead many countries to halt nuclear power and shift to green energy. After an Op-Ed in the San Francisco Chronicle, R. Andreas Kraemer of Ecologic Institute explains in the AICGS Advisor the German decision and its impact on nuclear proliferation.

The Nuclear Power Endgame in Germany

San Francisco Chronicle and AICGS Advisor

Year 2011

Publication:Article

In this article, the online edition of IP Global, Germany's leading foreign policy magazine, Sascha Müller-Kraenner, Senior Policy Advisor of Ecologic Institute, looks at the outcomes of the COP 10 of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD) in Nagoya, Japan, and the reasons behind them. His analysis points to opportunities on the road ahead for the international climate negotiations beyond the UNFCCC COP 16 in Cancun, Mexico, at the end of 2010.

Lessons for Cancun: Why biodiversity negotiations at Nagoya succeeded where Copenhagen failed

Year 2010

Publication:Article

The debate about geo-engineering is unstoppable. Strong interests push for research and experimental application. Geo-engineering is a play for time, at best, but always also a dangerous deviation from emission reduction and climate change adaptation. Properly conducted, the debate can help clarify the design of international institutions, argue R. Andreas Kraemer and Ralph Czarnecki of the Ecologic Institute in an article in Internationale Politik, Germany's leading foreign policy magazine.

Schöner Leben im Labor?

Geo-Engineering und das Recht, die Welt zu verändern

Year 2010

Project

The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) seeks to create a system of graduated co-operation and association contracts. The core will be a pan-European internal market. However, the integration of other policies, most notably in the areas of security co-operation, energy and the environment, play a crucial role. Other geopolitical actors like Russia will compete with the EU on the concepts that will define the common European space of the future.

Future Direction of a Sustainable European Neighbourhood Policy

Mar - May 2006

Presentation:Chairing

The current and future impact of the European Union on the sustainable development of its neighbours to the south and east and proposals for the future direction of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) were the themes of this session that took place at the 2006 Annual Conference of the European Foundation Centre (EFC). During the event an Ecologic Brief on European Neighbourhood Policy , written by Sascha Müller-Kraenner, was launched.

Democracy, Stability, Integration – A Sustainable European Neighbourhood Policy?

28 May 2006
R. Andreas Kraemer

Publication:Policy Brief

With the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), the European Union aims to redefine the relationships between itself and the new neighbours it acquired in the EU Enlargement of 2004. Economic integration remains at the heart of the ENP, but increased co-operation in the areas of environmental and energy policy is addressed as well. This Ecologic Newsletter by Sascha Müller-Kraenner examines this important issue and also surveys questions that the EU and its new neighbours will need to address together.

European Neighbourhood Policy

Challenges for the Environment and Energy Policy

Year 2005

Funding: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), International
Partner: University of Cambridge, Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI), United Kingdom

Ecologic Institute, Germany
Team: R. Andreas Kraemer

Dr. Nils Meyer-Ohlendorf

Sandra Cavalieri

Prof. Christoph H. Stefes, PhD
Duration: Jan 2010 - Jul 2011
Project ID: 101
Keywords: Arctic

Foreign Policy

Environment, Security Risks, Threats, Science and Diplomacy, international Institutions, Governance, NATO, European Union

Arctic, Russia, Canada, United States of America, USA, Norway, Iceland, Greenland

Further Links

Website: Arctic Transform

ProjectArctic Footprint and Policy Assessment

Arctic Footprint and Policy Assessment

The Arctic is often referred to as the bellwether of global climate change. According to the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment and the most recent assessment from IPCC, the warming rate is twice that of the global average, with predictions of further increases leading to... Read more

Arctic Footprint and Policy Assessment

Duration: Dec 2009 - Dec 2010
Funding: European Commission, Directorate-General Environment (DG Environment), International

PresentationSpeechClimate Change as a Security Threat of the Next Generation for NATO

Climate Change as a Security Threat of the Next Generation for NATO

In the run up to the NATO Summit in Strasbourg-Kehl in April 2009, NATO Public Diplomacy Division and Carnegie Europe launched a discussion on "The Next Generation of Security Threats" and the reprogramming of NATO. They invited R. Andreas Kraemer of Ecologic... Read more

Speech:Climate Change as a Security Threat of the Next Generation for NATO

Date: 24 February 2009
Location: Brussels, Belgium

EventDinner DialogueNew Threats Arising from Climate Change and Energy Scarcity – What Role for International Governance?

New Threats Arising from Climate Change and Energy Scarcity – What Role for International Governance?

At an Ecologic Dinner Dialogue in Brussels on 24 April 2008, Jamie Shea and Helga Schmid discussed the role for the EU and NATO in responding to threats arising from climate change. Jamie Shea is Head of Policy Planning at NATO. Helga Schmid is Policy Unit Director at... Read more

Dinner Dialogue:New Threats Arising from Climate Change and Energy Scarcity – What Role for International Governance?

Date: 24 April 2008
Location: Brussels, Belgium

PublicationBookEnergy Security

Sascha Müller-Kraenner's book questions the security of the energy policies from global powers such as the United States, Russia, and China. It offers a geopolitical perspective on the importance of environmentally safe energy resources. The run on the world's last... Read more

Müller-Kraenner, Sascha 2008: "Energy Security – Re-measuring the world." London.

PublicationBookEnvironmental Change and Security

Does a connection exist between environmental degradation, resource scarcity and violent conflicts? Global environmental changes, such as climate change and sea level rise, shortage of fresh water and rapid soil degradation increasingly highlight the dimensions of... Read more

Carius, Alexander and Kurt M. Lietzmann 1999: Environmental Change and Security - A European Perspective. [International and European Policy Studies]. Berlin: Springer.

Website: The EU Arctic Footprint and Policy Assessment Project,