Recommendations on funding in ministerial declarations in 1998–2013
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the report is the result of a collaboration between AMAP and CAFF in the Arctic Council and the International Arctic Science Committee. The ACIA report shows that
climate change is occurring faster than expected, and that it is happening much faster in the Arctic than anywhere else on the planet.
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The pervasive climatic change in the Arctic documented by ACIA also had signii- cance for the work on the reports of the other working groups cf. SAO reports and
reports from working groups. It concerns in this context climate change impacts on e.g. biodiversity, commercial activities and indigenous communities and lifestyles
cf. also the chapters that follow.
In the years that followed, the Arctic Council initiated work on the signiicance of the short-lived climate forcers. These forcers account for around 45 per cent of total
greenhouse gas emissions, and a reduction in emissions will, because of the short life- time these forcers have in the atmosphere, have an immediate efect in the Arctic.
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A direct descendant of the ACIA work was a new, larger climate report following a Norwegian initiative, SWIPA
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, where a inal report was presented in 2011. Both the Ministry of Foreign Afairs and the Ministry of the Environment noted that
AMAP is key to the Arctic Council’s work. The Ministry also noted that AMAP has brought forth many important results through its many projects and related reports
and is a major player in monitoring environmental and climatic conditions in the Arctic.
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The Ministry of the Environment cited the Arctic Council’s work on climate through ACIA and SWIPA as crucial to eforts to generate knowledge about the
environmental situation in the Arctic.
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ACIA is considered one of the most important technical products in the Arctic Council as a whole.
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