Webinar: Building Climate Resilience in the Urban Arctic
Harvard Kennedy School’s Arctic Initiative and the Arctic Mayors’ Forum announce their upcoming virtual seminar, titled Building Climate Resilience in the Urban Arctic. This webinar will take place 27 April 2023, 8:00-9:00 a.m. AKST/12:00-1:00 p.m. EST.
The seminar will explore how Arctic cities are addressing the current and future impacts of climate change, as well as the lessons that Arctic cities and other cities elsewhere in the world can learn from each other’s experiences.
The panel will feature Ida Maria Pinnerød, Mayor of Bodø, Norway; Avaraaq Olsen, Mayor of Sermersooq, Greenland; Annika Myrén, Development Strategist of the City of Umeå, Sweden; and Bryce Ward, Mayor of Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska. Arctic Initiative Postdoctoral Research Fellow Nadezhda Filimonova will moderate.
This event is open to the public and hosted on Zoom. For those who cannot attend live, the seminar will be recorded and available to watch on this page (typically within two weeks). Those who register for this event will automatically receive a link to the recording as soon as it becomes available.
For more information and to register, go to:
Webinar webpage
For questions, contact:
Elizabeth Hanlon
Email: ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu