As the climate crisis intensifies, billions of people are affected by food and water insecurity, economic turmoil, large-scale migration, loss of lives and livelihoods.
The Arctic is rapidly warming and disproportionately driving climate risks. No matter where you live, what happens in the Arctic affects your community, and vice versa.
How the Arctic Affects the World
No matter where you live, what happens in the Arctic affects your community and vice versa.
The Control Center for
Global Climate Risks
Instead of thinking about the Arctic as some distant land, we need to think of
it more like a control center for climate risk mitigation.
The more decision-makers understand the Arctic and engage with Arctic data, the better we can enhance understanding of global climate risks.
Extreme weather events
Food insecurity
Heat waves and heat stress
Sea level rise
Water insecurity
Economic impacts
Disease exacerbation
Regional impacts in the arctic
National security
Did you know that at 5.5 million square miles the Arctic is significantly bigger than Canada, China or the United States, yet we monitor this area with only about 250 near real-time observing systems?
That’s equivalent to one sensor to cover Ireland or the state of West Virginia.
About us
For nearly a decade, the scientists at Arctic BasecampArctic BasecampArctic Basecamp have disseminated actionable information about the Arctic and its critical relationship to climate change.
Now, we’re seeking to empower global leaders to enact evidence-based solutions through a groundbreaking tool:
The Global Climate Risks Platform.
Building the
Dashboard for
Global Climate
Risks
The Arctic is a barometer of the climate crisis, but how fast is the Arctic changing, and how exactly do
changes
in the Arctic affect the rest of the world?
We’re exploring questions
like these and visualizing the data to make Arctic science
easy to understand for business leaders, policymakers, and everyone involved in managing risks
and restoring nature.
With the Global Climate Risks Platform, we’re creating a dashboard to connect climate change and Arctic science, and we’re expanding our visualization of insights to Antarctica and other frozen parts of the world.
Key Benefits
Here are just a few of the benefits you can expect from this tool.
- Learn how the Arctic affects global climate risks
- Monitor the changing state of the Arctic through indicators, alerts, and data visualizations
- View effects on extreme weather, supply chains, food and water security, sea level rise, and heat stress
- Understand how the Arctic affects climate vulnerable countries
- Learn how the Arctic affects the success of UN sustainable development goals
- Understand how the Arctic affects business, from supply chain disruptions to labor productivity loss and infrastructure risks
- Access communication and media toolkits and assets to make sense of Arctic science
- Curate the latest regional and global solutions to mitigate the effects of Arctic change
Coming Soon
We’re seeking support to build out the following features.
- Industry- and regional-specific data visualizations
- Quantified impact of climate solutions on the Arctic
- Future projections of global risk based on different scenarios of Arctic change
- Insights to guide evidence-based solutions and innovation in clean energy
- Advanced risk analytics
- Polar risk dashboard
Platform Preview
View a sampling of alerts, global risks, and data accessible on the platform.
Where
Accountability
is Critical
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions can halt the cascade of risks the Arctic sets off for the rest of the world. View major emissions contributors in your country.
2021 major
GHG emitters
Thanks to our colleagues at Climate TRACE, we can finally understand the
links between emissions of GHGs and shrinking Arctic sea ice.
Where We Go
From Here
To avoid the worst effects of climate change, we need to implement solutions for all sectors and regions.
- No new investment in fossil fuels
- Phase out coal power
- Define an industry roadmap to reduce emissions
- Change shipping practices in the Arctic to reduce black carbon emissions
- Protect nature to enhance carbon sinks
- Align financial flows with net zero
- Slow the pace of permafrost thaw
- Hold the richest nations accountable for loss and damage
Join the
Mission
We urgently need to increase awareness of the connection between Arctic breakdown and global risks, as well as solutions.
With your support, we can flip the script on the climate crisis by centering stories about our changing planet around the Arctic, deploying sensors to fill gaps in Arctic research, and improving data quality and risk analytics for business leaders and policymakers.
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Mission
