Arctic EIA – Good Practice Recommendations for Environmental Impact Assessment and Public Participation in the Arctic An endorsed project by the SDWG – Sustainable Development Working Group of the Arctic Council Seija Rantakallio, Ministry of the Environment, Finland Arctic Energy Summit, 20 September, 2017
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Arctic EIA– Good Practice Recommendations for EnvironmentalImpact Assessment and Public Participation in the Arctic
An endorsed project by the SDWG – SustainableDevelopment Working Group of the Arctic Council
Seija Rantakallio, Ministry of the Environment, FinlandArctic Energy Summit, 20 September, 2017
Finding out common interest on Arctic EIAPrestudy
// Arctic ”academic” workshop in Rovaniemi Dec 2014 by the Arctic Centre// Arctic EIA officials and experts –discussions by Ministry of the Environment, Finland
• Finland – domestic discussions at three workshops in Rovaniemi spring season 2016
• Discussions with experts in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Greenland, Russian Federation and Iceland in spring season 2016 and in Canada and USA spring 2017
• Representatives of indigenous peoples’ organizations, especially Saami Council, Inuit Circumpolar Council, Finnish Saami Parliament.
• Arctic Economic Council and EIB
Outcome: There is an interest and need to learn how EIA is implemented within the Arctic and willingness to share approaches addressing unique challenges and impacts faced in the Arctic environment.
Early cooperation: Guidelines for EIA in the Arctic (1997)
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Outcomes of the Arctic EIA
// Good practicerecommendations for EIA and publicparticipation in the Arctic
// Network of officialsand other actors withinthe field of EIA
// Permanent communication
// Shared good practices
// Common understanding
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Goals of the project 2017 – 2019
// To ensure that environmental considerations specific to the Arctic including social and health aspects are explicitly addressed and incorporated into planning, design and decisionmaking of large-scale projects. This would include the effective use and integrationof Indigenous, traditional, and local knowledge, where applicable.
// To identify good practices and develop recommendations through sharing and learning with the aim of improving EIAs in the Arctic.
// To increase the effectiveness of public participation of indigenous peoples, localcommunities and other stakeholders.
// To build a viable network of Arctic EIA actors.
Arctic EIA
// To identify
// To share
// To learn
// To co-create
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Possible themes within the recommendations
Following issues were raised by countries’ experts during the prestudy phase:
// Indigenous, traditional and local knowledge
// Impacts of climate change
// Impacts on climate change
// Social impact assessment
// Impacts on reindeer herding and other traditional land use forms
// Importance of good baseline data
// Ecosystem approach
// Impacts on biodiversity, ecologically and culturally sensitive areas
// Cumulative impacts
// Impacts of contaminants
// Transboundary impacts
// Enhanced utilization and dissemination of results of the Arctic Council working groups
// EIA and Arctic specific capacity building for developers & building and supporting
capacity in local northern communities and Indigenous groups to effectively participate in EIAs
// Issues of Corporate Social Responsibility
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• Country and Permanent Participant (indigenous organizations) coordinators
• Helps identifying good practices and developing the recommendations
• Works mainly electronically with possibly 2-4 meetings upon need
• Facilitator of the project• Drafting of recommentations• Communication guidance
• Authorities, developers, consultants, Indigenous Peoples and other Arctic
inhabitants, NGOs, academics• Activated by questionnaires, workshops,
media etc.
EIA actors
Editorial group
Project Coordinator
Network and getting the work doneEIA actors in cooperation
// Project Leader // Steering Group
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Indicative timeline
Decision on the project and co-leads at SDWG meeting in Kotzebue (SDWG –
Sustainable Development Working Group)
// Kick-off in Rovaniemi19.-21.6.2017// Questionnaire gathering Good Arctic EIA Practices
Feb 7-8
2017
// IAIA, Montreal in April 2017 (poster)
// Espoo Convention MOP7, Minsk in June 2017 (Side event on Arctic EIA)
// Arctic Energy
Summit, Helsinki
18.-20.9.2017
(EIA in energy projects in the Arctic)
In other events
2018
Workshops
// Alaska
27.-29.11.2017
// Nordic countries
11.-13.12.2017
//Canada 2018
// Russia 2018
// Others?
Finalizing and spreading
Good Practice Recommendations
Drafting & formulating recommendations
2019
Seminar –Conference
In spring 2019 ?
Lead countries// Finland: Ministry of the Environment
// Kingdom of Denmark: Greenland Institute of Natural Resources
// Canada: Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada
// Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland funding the core of the project
// Alaska workshop in Utqiakvik/Barrow (Institute of North organizing) 27.-29.11.2017
// Nordic workshop in Rovaniemi (Nordic Council of Ministers sponsoring) , Finland
11.- 12.12.2017
// Workshops in Russia and Canada planned for 2018
// The Arctic Center – University of Lapland, Finland
// Stockholm Environment Institute’s REXSAC and CO-LAND projects: REXSAC – Resource Extraction and Sustainable
// Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences et al: Indigenous Rights and the Global Politics of Resource Extraction: The Case of Mining in Sápmi (project)
Cooperation this far
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