Mapping Arctic Paradiplomacy: Limits and Opportunities for Sub-National Actors in Arctic Governance by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367674236
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-07-30T00:00:00+00:00

Bilateral initiatives: the United States and Canada

Subnational action on climate change can also take a smaller scale form in bilateral initiatives between cities and provinces/territories within neighbouring countries or those that share similar problems. In the North American Arctic, northern Canadian provinces and the state of Alaska have a number of bilateral projects that bring subnational actors together in climate action. The “Our Clean Future: A Yukon Strategy for Climate Change, Energy, and a Green Economy,” Yukon’s climate change roadmap, includes work with the governments of British Columbia, Northwest Territories, and Alaska to explore options for installing electric vehicle fast-charging stations to connect the Arctic in an electrified network of transportation. The Pacific Northwest Economic Region (PNWER), a statutory public/private nonprofit provides continuity for bilateral relations by annually convening Arctic subnational leaders from Alaska, Yukon, and Northwest Territories in their Arctic Caucus. PNWER aims to provide a forum to share information, discuss issues of mutual concern, identify areas for collaboration between the three jurisdictions and the rest of North America, and provide Arctic-relevant input to PNWER working groups and the region at-large. PNWER has brought subnational leaders together to exchange best practices and commit to bilateral action on Arctic entrepreneurship in the energy sector and in responding to extreme weather events.

Across the Atlantic, the AlaskaNor project coordinated by the High North Center for Business and Governance at Nord University in Bodø, Norway, is another example of bilateral exchange of civic best practices on climate change policy and management. Funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Nordland County, the 2018–2021 project aims to improve knowledge concerning the blue economy in Alaska and North Norway by enhancing related knowledge among relevant stakeholders and among decision-makers (AlaskaNor, 2020). It brings together subnational government entities from Alaska and northern Norway to analyse, plan, and implement county and city-level policy on ocean economic and environmental sustainability as sea temperatures warm and new fisheries migrate north. The Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, Bodo Municipality Juneau Economic Development Council, Nordland County, and the State of Alaska all convene throughout the year to develop targeted knowledge of the blue economy, synthesize findings in collaboration with subnational stakeholders, and presenting policy recommendations to decision-makers in Washington, DC, and Oslo, Norway, to support local action.

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