Policy brief #8/2016
The decline in global oil prices that began in the summer of 2014 carries with it a number of risks in assembling a whole range of major oil and gas projects, including shale gas extraction projects, deep-water offshore projects and projects in the Arctic shelf.
In these conditions, despite the ongoing surplus of global oil production in relation to consumption, the question nevertheless arises: how can we maintain current production levels in the medium and long-term and ensure...
Challenges and Prospects of Greenland’s Independence
The indigenous people of Greenland are the Eskimos, who came to the island from the west about two millennia BC. Later on, the Norsemen began to settle on the island and founded two major settlements – Esterbyugden (near ...
... the first Arctic state to develop a long-term strategy for the Arctic region. Russia's example was followed by other Arctic countries. One of the last countries to join this group was Denmark whose government in coordination with local authorities in Greenland and the Faeroe Islands approved in August 2011 the “
Strategy for the Kingdom of Denmark with Regard to the Arctic for 2011-2020
.”
This unusual trilateral format of Danish strategy is the result of a significant level of autonomy of Greenland ...
