Environment & Climate Change

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Presentation

Climate Change and Iceland's Role in North Atlantic Security

    Author:
  • Björn Bjarnason
| November 26, 2007

Björn Bjarnason is Minister of Justice for the Republic of Iceland, and a number of his responsibilities relate to domestic and external security — analogous to those of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. His lecture addressed security issues relating to maritime activity in the North Atlantic and the changing profile of these maritime security issues due to climate change and the increased exploitation of oil and gas in the Arctic.