The Global Arctic: The Sustainability of Communities in the Context of Changing Ocean Systems (2018)

The Arctic is being profoundly transformed by climate change. This has implications on terrestrial and marine ecosystems, affecting those who live on and from them. It is time to develop a shared scientific vision to protect these vital ecosystems as best we can, produce science for evidence based decision-making and enhance collaborative scientific investigations of these issues. The G7 Academies propose the following:

• Research cooperation relying on augmented interdisciplinary research supported by large scale international science initiatives in combination with cooperative decision-making among Arctic nations;
• Training individuals from a diversity of fields and backgrounds, including those residing in the Arctic, to ensure the necessary scientific capacity to address global and local issues;
• Accessible, usable and timely science databases that can be shared among all stakeholders and decision makers;
• Programs on remote sensing linked with in-situ monitoring activities integrating sustained highinclination satellite missions, new technologies for underwater measurements and regionally integrated in-situ monitoring that incorporates local knowledge.