Polar Policy Resources

Europe and European Union Environment

EPB contributions

Joint Letter from the EU Polar Cluster regarding FP10 (November 2025)

European Polar Science Week 2024 Summary Report (2025)

Factsheet on the EU's contribution to science and innovation in the Arctic (2025)

Arctic Communities Event Databases - a major hub for Indigenous Knowledge and local Knowledge (2024)

Understanding impacts of climate change on Earth’s vulnerable polar regions (2024)

The Changing Poles: how Antarctic and Arctic science helps to inform and prepare the EU for changes in sea level rise and the global climate (2024)

EU-PolarNet 2 White paper with recommendations to accelerate the development of a sustained and fully integrated Polar observing system (2024)

EU action against microplastics (2023)

Antarctica: What role for the European Union? - In-Depth Analysis (2023)

EU research contribution to IPCC working group I on the physical science basis: understanding the changing climate, enabling effective response strategies (2023)

EU Arctic Strategy (2021)

A balanced Arctic policy for the EU (Directorate-General for External Policies of the Union (European Parliament))

Making sense of science for policy under conditions of complexity and uncertainty (Science Advice for Policy by European Academies (SAPEA))

Optimising the Operation and Use of Research Infrastructures (Science Europe)

Ten issues to watch in 2020 (In-depth Analysis, European Parliamentary Research Service) (January 2020)

In-depth analysis: A Balanced Arctic Policy for the EU (July 2020)

Levels of Law Understanding the complexity of the European Union’s legal Arctic presence (The Arctic Institute) (March 2020)

Walking on thin ice: A balanced arctic strategy for the EU (November 2019)

Arctic: Traditional Knowledge, Livelihoods and Community Engagement Setting the Scene (European Commission) (2018)

Resources from Indigenous Organisations

Roadmap to decolonial Arctic Research - a toolkit to support EU policymakers (2023)

Inuit Circumpolar Council: Ethical and Equitable Engagement Synthesis Report (2021)

Co-creating research projects - some personal experiences from Saami Council and Arctic researchers (Saami Council)

The Sámi Arctic Strategy // Sámi Strategy for Arctic Affairs // Sámi Árktalaš Áigumušat (Saami Council)

Resources from the Saami Council

International Polar Initiatives

Sample elaborations, data analyses, results and conclusions from the seagoing MOSAiC and SAS expeditions in the Central Arctic Ocean (2024)

Marine Ecosystem Assessment for the Southern Ocean: Summary for Policymakers (2023)

Christchurch Communique: Urging Immediate Climate Action (a statement of concerned Antarctic scientists) (2023)

Plastics and the Environment (Geneva Environment Network)

Science Diplomacy in the polar regions (2023)