Safety, Maps, and Other Work

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Additional work related to analyses and assessments. Includes the background documents for the Arctic Rescue project series.

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    Circumpolar Wildland Fire Operational Baseline Report
    (Arctic Council Secretariat, 2025-05-12) Emergency Prevention, Preparedness, and Response (EPPR)
    The Arctic is experiencing unprecedented ecosystem changes and warming, and subsequently, extreme wildfire events in all eight Arctic states. Wildland firefighting resources and information are often shared between some Arctic States such as Canada and the United States. However, a forum by which all eight Arctic states can collaborate for the purposes of wildland fire preparedness, mitigation, and response is conspicuously absent and offers an opportunity to fill this initial research gap. The impacts of wildland fires are a shared northern problem for both the Arctic States and the Permanent Participants. Issues ranging from carbon release and permafrost degradation to smoke impacts increasingly represent cross-border challenges facing many stakeholders, including Arctic states and Permanent Participants of the Arctic Council. The research goal of this report is to determine a baseline understanding of operational capabilities and information sources for wildland fire response available in each Arctic State.
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    Emerging Risks in the Arctic
    (Arctic Council Secretariat, 2025-05-12) Emergency Prevention, Preparedness, and Response (EPPR)
    This report identifies key emerging risks, reviews existing response measures, and explores options to safeguard the Arctic’s unique ecosystems, and support its communities in the face of rapid environmental and socio-economic change.
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    Arctic Wildland Fire Sharing Circle Summary Report
    (Arctic Council Secretariat, 2022-03) Arctic Council
    The Arctic Wildland Fire Sharing Circle, held in November 2021, brought together multiple Working Groups, diverse participants, and a range of projects active and planned for the Arctic in an innovative way to learn, share, and discuss. It fostered a spirit of inclusiveness, and was unique in looking across borders and Working Groups to bring a truly circumpolar lens to wildland fire in the Arctic.
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    Arctic Marine Risk Assessment Guideline Fact Sheet
    (Arctic Council Secretariat, 2020) Emergency Prevention, Preparedness and Response (EPPR)
    As a follow-up to the Arctic Council Framework Plan for Oil Pollution Prevention (2015), the Arctic Council Working Group Emergency Prevention, Preparedness and Response (EPPR) identified the need for a common approach to marine risk assessments in the Arctic region. The Guideline aims to engage Arctic stakeholders to agree on best practice methods and data sources, and make these readily available, and to better understand, communicate and incorporate specific Arctic risk influencing factors (ARIFs) into the risk assessment process.
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    Search and Rescue Cooperation in the Arctic
    (Arctic Council Secretariat, 2020-08) EPPR
    Fact sheet on The Agreement on Cooperation on Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue in the Arctic