International Symposium on Plastics in the Arctic and the Sub- Arctic Region, Symposium Summary
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Issue Date
2021
Authors
The Government of Iceland and the Nordic Council of Ministers
Subject
Abstract
The Government of Iceland in collaboration with the Nordic Council of Ministers
hosted the International Symposium on Plastics in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Region
on March 2-4 and 8-9, 2021 in connection with the Icelandic Chairmanship of the
Arctic Council, which took place from May 2019 to May 2021. The symposium
was organised in co-operation with 11 international partners that address marine
pollution in various ways. Iceland had chosen the Arctic marine environment as
one of four priority areas of work for its chairmanship and addressing plastic
marine litter, and in particular pollution in the Arctic, became a high priority issue
in the work programme of the Arctic Council.