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The Climate Question: Why is climate change fuelling tension in the Arctic?

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04/02/2024 GMT

Why is climate change fuelling tension in the Arctic?

BBC World Service - The Climate Question, Why is climate change fuelling tension in the Arctic?

Graihagh Jackson finds out how melting sea ice is testing Russia-NATO relations

Graihagh Jackson finds out how melting sea ice is testing relations between Russia, China and NATO.

Global temperatures have already increased by around 1.3C above pre-industrial levels, but this warming is not spread evenly across the planet. The Arctic, despite being one of the coldest regions on Earth, has become a hotspot for global warming. 

Local temperatures there are rising as much as four-times faster than in other parts of the world. This rapid warming is unsettling the delicate environmental balance, causing significant ice loss – with implications for both the region and the wider world. 

In a previous episode on the Arctic region, Graihagh Jackson explored the impact that climate change was having on the people – and ice sheet – of Greenland. In the second part of The Climate Question's focus on the High North, she explores the implications of an increasingly ice-free region on global politics, military relations, and trade. 

Guests: 
Mathieu Boulègue, consulting fellow at Chatham House and global fellow at the Polar Institute of the Wilson Centre 
Julie Brigham-Grette, professor of Earth Sciences in the Department of Earth, Geographic and Climate Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst 
Malte Humpert, senior fellow at the Arctic Institute
Amund Trellevik, Norwegian journalist with Investigate Europe

Producer: Ben Cooper 
Series Producers: Simon Watts and Alex Lewis 
Editor: China Collins 
Sound Engineer: Tom Brignell 
Production Coordinators: Debbie Richford, Sophie Hill and Jacqui Johnson

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