{"id":4709,"date":"2023-05-23T16:27:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T16:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/?page_id=4709"},"modified":"2025-06-30T15:03:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T15:03:30","slug":"atcmhelsinki2023","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/atcmhelsinki2023\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"banner has-hover has-parallax\" id=\"banner-1236129404\">\n          <div class=\"banner-inner fill\">\n        <div class=\"banner-bg fill\" data-parallax=\"-10\" data-parallax-container=\".banner\" data-parallax-background>\n            <div class=\"bg fill bg-fill\"><\/div>\n                        <div class=\"overlay\"><\/div>            \n                    <\/div>\n\t\t\n        <div class=\"banner-layers container\">\n            <div class=\"fill banner-link\"><\/div>            \n   <div id=\"text-box-2076300648\" class=\"text-box banner-layer x5 md-x5 lg-x5 y20 md-y20 lg-y20 res-text\">\n                                <div class=\"text-box-content text dark\">\n              \n              <div class=\"text-inner text-center\">\n                  \n\t<div id=\"text-196853675\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<h4 class=\"uppercase\">EVENTS AND RECEPTION<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"uppercase\">on the eve of the first ATCM Climate Day<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-196853675 {\n  font-size: 1rem;\n  line-height: 2.5;\n  text-align: center;\n  color: rgb(0,0,0);\n}\n#text-196853675 > * {\n  color: rgb(0,0,0);\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n              <\/div>\n           <\/div>\n                            \n<style>\n#text-box-2076300648 {\n  width: 89%;\n}\n#text-box-2076300648 .text-box-content {\n  font-size: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n    <\/div>\n \n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n            \n<style>\n#banner-1236129404 {\n  padding-top: 175px;\n}\n#banner-1236129404 .bg.bg-loaded {\n  background-image: url(https:\/\/iccinet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/6-min.png);\n}\n#banner-1236129404 .overlay {\n  background-color: rgba(255,255,255,.5);\n}\n#banner-1236129404 .bg {\n  background-position: 74% 46%;\n}\n#banner-1236129404 .ux-shape-divider--top svg {\n  height: 150px;\n  --divider-top-width: 100%;\n}\n#banner-1236129404 .ux-shape-divider--bottom svg {\n  height: 150px;\n  --divider-width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n  <\/div>\n\n\n\t<div id=\"gap-724393236\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-724393236 {\n  padding-top: 30px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<p>The following events will take place on June 1, 2023 at the ATCM meeting in Helsinki. <strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"container section-title-container\" ><h3 class=\"section-title section-title-center\"><b><\/b><span class=\"section-title-main\" >Side Event & Evening Reception \u2502 June 1, 2023, 17:00-20:00<\/span><b><\/b><\/h3><\/div>\n<p><strong>Date: <\/strong>Thursday, June 1 from 17:00-20:00<br \/><strong>Location: <\/strong>Scandic Grand Marina Hotel (located next to the ATCM venue: Marina Congress Center)<br \/><strong>Meeting Room<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>Eliel + Selim<\/p>\n<p>On the evening of June 1st, the <a href=\"https:\/\/ambitionmeltingice.org\/\">Ambition on Melting Ice (AMI) High-level Group on Sea-Level Rise and Mountain Water Resources<\/a> will be inviting delegates and interested parties to an evening reception where leading scientists and representatives of concerned countries will present the latest information on the global consequences of Antarctic ice loss and the related key issue of the acidification of the Southern Ocean, with major consequences for fisheries and food security.<\/p>\n<p>To RSVP, please contact Lydie Lescarmontier: <a href=\"mailto:lydie@iccinet.org\">lydie@iccinet.org<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"accordion\">\n<div id=\"accordion-3668220713\" class=\"accordion-item\"><a id=\"accordion-3668220713-label\" href=\"#\" class=\"accordion-title plain\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-3668220713-content\"><button class=\"toggle\" aria-label=\"V\u00e4xla\"><i class=\"icon-angle-down\"><\/i><\/button><span>Click here for the Programme<\/span><\/a><div id=\"accordion-3668220713-content\" class=\"accordion-inner\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-3668220713-label\">\n<div class=\"message-box relative\" style=\"padding-top:15px;padding-bottom:15px;\"><div class=\"message-box-bg-image bg-fill fill\" ><\/div><div class=\"message-box-bg-overlay bg-fill fill\" ><\/div><div class=\"container relative\"><div class=\"inner last-reset\">\n<div class=\"row align-middle align-center\"  id=\"row-1610017470\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-288770434\" class=\"col medium-11 small-12 large-11\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<p data-line-height=\"l\"><strong>17:00 Refreshments<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-line-height=\"xs\">(30 Minutes after Plenary end\/NLT 18:30): Formal Programme Begins<\/p>\n<p data-line-height=\"xs\"><strong>Welcome \u2013 Finland and AMI Co-Chair Chile<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-line-height=\"xs\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Kaarle Kupiainen \u2013 <\/strong>Senior Research Scientist at the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE)<\/p>\n<p data-line-height=\"xs\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Marcelo Leppe <\/strong>\u2013 Director of the Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH<strong>)<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-line-height=\"xs\"><strong>Science Presentations: Global Impacts from Antarctica due to Climate Change<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-line-height=\"xs\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Dr. Tim Naish<\/strong> \u2013 Professor in Earth Sciences<\/p>\n<p data-line-height=\"xs\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Antarctic Research Centre | Te Puna P\u0101tiotio<\/p>\n<p data-line-height=\"xs\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Victoria University of Wellington | Te Herenga Waka<\/p>\n<p data-line-height=\"xs\"><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Committed Sea-level Rise from Antarctica: Latest Research on Extreme Potential SLR<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-line-height=\"xs\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Dr. Lydie Lescarmontier<\/strong> \u2013 Antarctica Director, international Cryosphere Climate Initiative<\/p>\n<p data-line-height=\"xs\"><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Southern Ocean Acidification: On the Edge at 450ppm<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-line-height=\"xs\"><strong>Q&amp;A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-line-height=\"xs\"><strong>Closing Statements \u2013 AMI Member Countries<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t<div id=\"gap-915287806\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-915287806 {\n  padding-top: 15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/ATCM-MEDIA-ADVISORY.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button secondary is-outline\"  >\n    <span>DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE<\/span>\n  <\/a>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ambitionmeltingice.org\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"button secondary is-underline\"  style=\"border-radius:99px;\">\n    <span>Learn more about AMI<\/span>\n  <i class=\"icon-angle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\" ><\/i><\/a>\n\n\t<div id=\"gap-1331072740\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-1331072740 {\n  padding-top: 15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<div class=\"container section-title-container\" ><h3 class=\"section-title section-title-center\"><b><\/b><span class=\"section-title-main\" >Youth for Antarctica \u2502 June 1, 2023, 12:30-14:00<\/span><b><\/b><\/h3><\/div>\n<p><strong>Date: <\/strong>Thursday, June 1 from 12:30-14:00<br \/><strong>Location: <\/strong>Tove Jansson Park, Helsinki<\/p>\n<p>On June 1st, the eve of the landmark ATCM\/CEP session on climate change, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asoc.org\/news\/youthforantarctica-helsinki\">the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC), which includes ICCI, will be organising a street art tour<\/a>, leading visitors and delegates from the ATCM venue, the <em>Scandic Marina Congress Center<\/em>, to the T<em>ove Jansson Park<\/em>, where children will hand delegates cards with drawings and key messages in front of three ice sculptures. The aim is to underline how biodiversity and climate are interconnected and to give a voice to the young people who will grow up in a world with a very different climate. ICCI will also be present, with roll-ups showing the impacts of polar ocean acidification, and especially the large impact of Antarctic ice sheet loss on southern Finland and Estonia in the northeastern Baltic Sea\/ Gulf of Finland.<\/p>\n\t<section class=\"section\" id=\"section_1189955379\">\n\t\t<div class=\"bg section-bg fill bg-fill  bg-loaded\" >\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"container section-title-container\" ><h4 class=\"section-title section-title-normal\"><b><\/b><span class=\"section-title-main\" >Background Information<\/span><b><\/b><\/h4><\/div>\n<h3><strong>New <\/strong><strong>Climate Change Focus at Helsinki Antarctic Treaty meeting in June 2023<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>When the <a href=\"https:\/\/um.fi\/atcm45\">45<sup>th<\/sup> Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM)<\/a> is held in the Finnish capital, Helsinki, from May 28 to June 8 2023, it will include a <strong><em>Climate Action Day<\/em><\/strong>. It is the first time such an event has been held since the Antarctic Treaty was signed in 1961. Friday 2 June will be dedicated to a full-day joint session of the ATCM and its related scientific body, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ats.aq\/e\/committee.html\">Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP)<\/a> focusing on climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ats.aq\/e\/atcm.html\">Consultative Parties to the Antarctic Treaty meet every year at the ATCM<\/a> to exchange information, consult on matters of common interest relating to Antarctica, and to consider and recommend measures to their governments. The group consists of the original twelve Parties to the Treaty and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ats.aq\/e\/committee.html\">those Parties that demonstrate their interest in Antarctica by conducting substantial research activity there<\/a>\u201c. ATCM meetings traditionally focus on research cooperation and the management of human activities in connection with the protection of Antarctic biodiversity and ecosystems. In the climate change context, the emphasis is on impacts within Antarctica and on the Southern Ocean.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Impacts beyond the Antarctic<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>However, there is a growing scientific concensus that the greatest human consequences of climate changes affecting the Antarctic will be felt not by the small research and tourism communities active on the continent, but by vulnerable millions living in low-lying countries and regions. As outlined in the <a href=\"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/ipcc-ar6-synthesis-report\/\">latest IPCC Report<\/a>, if atmospheric CO2 levels are not radically addressed, billions may be affected by the loss of some or all of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, which holds a potential total of 57 meters of sea level rise.<\/p>\n<p>An increasing number of studies of growing sophistication, taking account of the physical characteristics of ice sheets and\u00a0 ocean interactions, and calibrating models against real-world observations and paleo-climatic records, are converging on 1.8\u00b0C as a critical threshold which could trigger irreversible loss of portions of the ice sheet, especially the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping this Antarctic ice frozen is thus an issue of global concern.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Ambitioner p\u00e5 sm\u00e4ltande is<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>At last year&#8217;s UN Climate Conference COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, 20 government ministers formed the <a href=\"https:\/\/ambitionmeltingice.org\/\">Ambition on Melting Ice (AMI) high-level group on Sea-level Rise and Mountain Water Resources<\/a><strong>. <\/strong>AMI aims to ensure that the irreversible and devastating global impacts of cryosphere loss are understood by political leaders and the public alike, across the planet. In the founding Declaration, the partners write: \u201cprotecting the cryosphere through vigorous climate action is not a matter for mountain and polar nations alone: it is a matter of urgent global concern, because the greatest impacts on human communities lie well outside these regions.\u201c The group includes not only countries with ice and snow regions or mountains, but others far distant, which will be disastrously affected by sea-level rise, such as Vanuatu or Liberia.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Founding countries:Chile (Co-chair), Iceland (Co-chair), Peru, Czech Republic, Nepal, Finland, Senegal, Kyrgyz Republic, Samoa, Monaco, Georgia, Liberia, Switzerland, Tanzania, New Zealand, Sweden, Vanuatu, Norway, Austria, and Mexico.) <\/em><\/p>\n<p>At the ATCM in Helsinki, AMI (some states are ATCM parties, others not) will highlight the key role and global relevance of Antarctica from the point of view of climate impacts on vulnerable countries. The aim is to motivate rapid emissions cuts to keep the world to the lower Paris Agreement limit of 1.5\u00b0C and with minimum overshoot, in order to avoid waking ever-greater portions of the Antarctic ice sheet, the \u201csleeping giant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The loss of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) alone could raise sea levels by 4 meters. This would wipe out much of Monrovia, the capital of founding AMI member Liberia, a country not generally thought of in conjunction with melting polar ice.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_1189955379 {\n  padding-top: 30px;\n  padding-bottom: 30px;\n  min-height: 300px;\n  background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);\n}\n#section_1189955379 .ux-shape-divider--top svg {\n  height: 150px;\n  --divider-top-width: 100%;\n}\n#section_1189955379 .ux-shape-divider--bottom svg {\n  height: 150px;\n  --divider-width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following events will take place on June 1, 2023 at the ATCM meeting in Helsinki. 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