A meeting place for debate, exchange of experiences, and experiences related to sustainable exploitation of the ocean.
Through conferences, meetings, activities, and culture, various actors will shed light on creating the ocean we need for the future we desire. The first edition of One Ocean Week was held from April 15th to 21st, 2023.
One Ocean Week is an annual event aimed at raising awareness and sharing knowledge about the important role the ocean plays in sustainable development from a global perspective. The week is part of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, as one of the activities worldwide aimed at improving the situation in the ocean by 2030.
“Indigenous perspectives of climate change” with young voices from the Arctic 18.04.2024 Time: 18:00 – 19:30
Place: Litteraturhuset, Auditoriumet
How do the indigenous people living on Greenland perceive climate change and how does it affect their daily life and culture?
Join us for a conversation with Nivi Rosing (Arctic Youth Network), youth from Sápmi and Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu (Leader of ClimateNarratives and professor at UiB) in a discussion on how climate change affects Indigenous people.
ClimateNarratives is an interdisciplinary research project in the climate sciences focusing on identifying risks, vulnerability, innovation and adaption possibilities for indigenous communities living along the coast of Greenland and on low-lying islands of the Pacific. Both of these communities live close to nature and to the ocean, and are facing new challenges and opportunities due to climate change: As the glaciers and the sea ice along the coast of Greenland retreats, new land is appearing and the fjords are opening; meanwhile, on low-lying island states of the Pacific, land is disappearing as the ice melts, and the communities are at an ever increasing risk of storm surges and floods.
What is novel with the ClimateNarratives project is the combination of climate science, social science and art together with local indigenous knowledge and narratives across cultures and generations in the search to identify challenges and possibilities in the face of current and as well as future climate changes.