Cold facts, hot topics and uncertain futures: Political and industry responses to climate changes in Greenland

Carina Bregnholm Ren; Lill Rastad Bjørst

Cold facts, hot topics and uncertain futures: Political and industry responses to climate changes in Greenland

Carina Bregnholm Ren, Lill Rastad Bjørst

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This article discusses political and industry responses to climate changes in a Greenlandic context. Using mining and tourism as two telling examples, we show how global discourses on the Arctic as a ‘climate loser’ is reconfigured locally seeing receding ice as an opportunity for industrial and tourism development. Paradoxically, the expected opportunities of actual and anticipated climate changes have entailed reluctance within the political establishment and in the industry against reducing CO2 emissions and are expected to strengthen the dependency on fossil fuels in years to come.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene
Editors	Dominick DellaSalla, Michael Goldstein
Number of pages	3
Publisher	Elsevier
Publication date	1 Dec 2017
Edition	1.
Pages	501-503
ISBN (Print)	9780128096659
ISBN (Electronic)	9780128096659
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2017

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Greenland
Tourism
Arctic
climage change

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