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IPY 20 07–20 08<br />

speakers and panellists included many distinguished<br />

scholars, science managers, policy specialists and<br />

young scientists representing APECS from both the<br />

Antarctic and the Arctic fields (see www.atsummit50.<br />

aq/about_summit/speakers.php<br />

Nevertheless, the governments of the eight Arctic<br />

States have made it clear that they believe that continued<br />

peace and stability in the Arctic can best be<br />

achieved by continuing to strengthen and develop<br />

the present intergovernmental cooperation structures<br />

with full respect for existing legal and political<br />

realities. Within that framework, there is scope for<br />

more lessons to be learned and more experiences to<br />

be shared on how to address similar issues in the two<br />

polar regions. Joint action between the AC and the<br />

ATCM could be contemplated to highlight matters of<br />

common concern such as the need for improved hydrographic<br />

charts, adequate satellite coverage and<br />

increased funding for polar research.<br />

References<br />

IASC Bulletin 06/07 - http://web.arcticportal.org/iasc/<br />

services/publications.<br />

IASC Bulletin 07/08 - http://web.arcticportal.org/iasc/<br />

services/publications.<br />

IASC Bulletin 08/09 - http://web.arcticportal.org/iasc/<br />

services/publications.<br />

Klepikov, A., 2008. SCAR/IASC IPY Open Science<br />

Conference “<strong>Polar</strong> Research - Arctic and Antarctic<br />

Perspectives in the <strong>International</strong> <strong>Polar</strong> <strong>Year</strong>.” SCAR<br />

Bulletin 169 (December):4–8.<br />

Report of Senior Arctic Officials to Ministers at the Fifth<br />

Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting, Salekhard,<br />

October 26, 2006, www.arctic-council.org.<br />

Salekhard Declaration, On the occasion of the tenth<br />

Anniversary of the Arctic Council, the fifth Arctic<br />

Conclusions<br />

New or advanced partnerships in support of<br />

coordination of polar research – Arctic, Antarctic as<br />

well as bipolar – can be considered a main outcome<br />

of IPY. The corresponding central achievements of<br />

IGY were in the Antarctic domain. The frameworks for<br />

scientific and political cooperation in the Arctic, i.e.<br />

IASC and AC, were only established in the early 1990s.<br />

IPY succeeded in both fully integrating the relatively<br />

young Arctic components and strengthening bipolar<br />

scientific activities and collaboration. The linkages<br />

between the political frameworks provided by the<br />

ATCM and the AC as well as the collaboration between<br />

and among the key scientific bodies, i.e. ICSU, <strong>WMO</strong>,<br />

SCAR and IASC, have been strengthened and will<br />

continue. This emergence of a bipolar cooperative<br />

approach to polar research that did not exist prior to<br />

IPY will certainly influence how the next IPY will be<br />

organized.<br />

Council Ministerial Meeting, the 26th of October,<br />

2006, Salekhard, Russia, www.arctic-council.org.<br />

SCAR Bulletin 152, January 2004 - www.scar.org/<br />

publications/bulletins/.<br />

SCAR Bulletin 154, July 2004 - www.scar.org/<br />

publications/bulletins/.<br />

SCAR Bulletin 159, October 2005 - www.scar.org/<br />

publications/bulletins/.<br />

Senior Arctic Official (SAO) Report to Ministers, Tromsø,<br />

Norway, April 2009, www.arctic-council.org.<br />

Tromsø Declaration, On the occasion of the Sixth<br />

Ministerial Meeting of the Arctic Council, the<br />

29th of April, 2009, Tromsø, Norway, www.arcticcouncil.org.<br />

Notes<br />

1 See www.icsu.org. The members include 121 National Scientific Bodies (mostly national academies of science) covering 141<br />

countries, 30 <strong>International</strong> Scientific Unions, and 21 <strong>International</strong> Scientific Associates.<br />

2 WCRP, <strong>International</strong> Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, <strong>International</strong> Human Dimensions Programme, DIVERSITAS, and their Earth<br />

System Science Partnership.<br />

3 See www.wmo.int <strong>WMO</strong> has a membership of 189 Member States and Territories (as of 30 April 2010).

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