Personnel Training for Sustainable Development in the Arctic

In our (frozen) backyard: the Eurasian Union and regional environmental governance in the Arctic

“…With regard to the Arctic, however, where climatic change is amplified, more concrete and tangible scientific cooperation has occurred in this field, including under the Russian-American Long-term Census of the Arctic (RUSALCA) program, where Russian scientists have been heavily engaged in monitoring and studying the effects of the shifting Arctic climate in discrete areas in the Arctic zone (Devyatkin 2022). Municipal authorities have also taken the initiative in spurring environmentally friendly programs, as in the town of Salekhard, which has shifted towards the use of recycling, a policy very rare in the AZRF (Orttung et al 2021), while educators have contributed via the incorporation of sustainability tenets into business education (Ryazanova 2022). Even corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been introduced by Russian firms in a different format than elsewhere in the Russian Federation, focusing on the needs of Arctic settlements and especially environmental issues such as biodiversity (see TotalEnergies projects connected with the Arctic LNG 2 project), although there are major questions-driven as they are by stateowned fossil fuel companies-on whether these CSR initiatives are good for sustainability (Hitztaler and Tynkkynen 2020).…”