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

C. Ren; L. R. Bjørst

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-809665-9.09792-5

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

C. Ren, L. R. 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 the years to come.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene
Editors	Michael I. Goldstein, Dominick A. Dellasala
Number of pages	3
Volume	2
Publication date	2018
Pages	501-503
ISBN (Print)	978-0-12-813576-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809665-9.09792-5
Publication status	Published - 2018

Keywords

Arctic
Climate change
Climate discourses
CO emissions
Fossil fuel dependency
Greenland
Industry responses
Melting ice cape
Mining
Tourism

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