The war and the sanctions are likely to create wide gaps in crucial data collection, sharing, and monitoring, which were facilitated by the Arctic Council in an atmosphere of peace and cooperation.
In this Saturday, July 22, 2017 file photo, a polar bear climbs out of the water to walk on the ice in the Franklin Strait in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Climate scientists point to the Arctic as the place where climate change is most noticeable with dramatic sea ice loss, a melting Greenland ice sheet, receding glaciers and thawing permafrost. The Arctic has warmed twice as fast as the rest of the world since 1988.
The spillover of the war and mounting tensions have frozen engagement with Russia. On March 3, the other seven permanent member states of the Council – Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and the U.S. – released a joint statement boycotting their participation in the Arctic Council and its affiliated bodies. Being the Council chair until early 2023, Russia has responded that it plans to refocus its chairmanship on its own Arctic interests.
After the Amazon rainforest, the Arctic region is the second-largest carbon sink in the world. With the Arctic heating up and the permafrost thawing, carbon and methane gases are released and it is feared that instead of a carbon sink the Arctic might become a net carbon emitter.
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