Arctic Tipping Points

ATP participated as a stakeholder at workshop of the EU Arctic Footprints and Policy Assessment project, which took place on 14 April 2010 in Brussels.

At the conclusion of the scenario development process the EU Arctic Footprints and Policy Assessment project wish to gain a better and fuller understanding of the relationship shared by the EU and the Arctic region – and specifically, pressures on the Arctic deriving from the EU. Further, the EU Arctic Footprints and Policy Assessment project wishes to create a tool for developing new policy options for the EU (http://arctic-footprint.eu/).

The ATP project has submitted the first reports on Arctic marine tipping points, thresholds, algae genetic and 1D sensitivity tests of the SINMOD model.

The reports are not available to the public, but are submitted to the EU and are available to the ATP team. In case some of the information is of interest to scientists they can contact the ATP team members mentioned in parentheses in order to discuss access to information.

The first annual meeting of ATP took place in Copenhagen, March 8-10 2010.

The venue with > 40 participants from all partners was organized at “Trekanen”, a meeting place of the town government of Copenhagen which was given free of charge to ATP through the local organizer, Dorte Krause-Jensen. The meeting was a full success, comprising on overviews from the work packages, research highlights, group discussions and presentations on future challenges, deliveries and meeting (see programme). Also the steering committee of ATP met and the ATP management team had a meeting with advisory board.