| Summary: | "The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) is a four-year project of the Arctic Council that started officially in the third quarter of 2000 and is expected to be completed by the third quarter of 2004. The funding of ACIA is through support by each of the eight Arctic-rim nations, with the U. S. as the country that is providing financial support, through NSF and NOAA, to support the ACIA Secretariat at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Contributions from other arctic countries and the permanent Indigenous Peoples organizations, as well as from the U. K., have also been secured, with each country supporting the involvement of its citizens in the ACIA, and through in-kind contributions, such as local costs of hosting meetings and workshops. The role the Arctic plays in the global scale of climate variability and change is depicted in the graphic that follows:" /./
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