FROZEN ARCTIC. A compendium of interventions to slow down, halt, and reverse the effects of climate change in the Arctic and northern regions

• Main Authors: Alfthan, Björn, van Wijngaarden, Albert, Moore, John, Kullerud, Lars, Kurvits, Tiina, Mulelid, Oda, Husabø, Eirin
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Arctic; nature-based approaches; climate engineering; geoengineering; climate action; cryosphere; Climate change; Iceberg*; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8408608

Phase I of the Frozen Arctic Conservation project was a literature review to identify andand document therange of interventions that have been proposed toreverse, stabilize, or delay climate change impacts inthe northern and Arctic regions. A total of61 interventions were identified in six categories: ice sheets and glaciers, sea ice and icebergs, atmosphereand radiationmanagement, marine measures, land-based measures, and industry. The interventions were evaluated according to a set of 12 criteria: technological readiness level, scalability, timeliness for near future effects, potential to makea difference in Arctic and northern regionsgiven enoughtime, potential to makea global difference given enough time, cost to benefit comparison, likelihood of environmental risks, effects on Indigenous/local communities, ease of reversibility, and likelihood of termination shock. the aim is to follow up this initial evaluation with in-depth analyses of the most promising schemes according to clear, understandable, bias-free, and comparable metrics, including from a right-based approach.