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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

9. The Arctic Paradox (and How to Solve It). Oil, Gas and Climate Ethics in the Arctic

Author : Teemu Palosaari

Published in: The GlobalArctic Handbook

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter looks at Arctic oil and gas development from the viewpoint of global climate ethics. The purpose is to analyze how topical issues related to climate justice and responsibility are covered in the current Arctic discourse. The analysis focuses on Arctic discussions on new oil and gas resources that become accessible as the sea-ice melts. It has been argued that the development of oil and gas resources in the Arctic is incompatible with the efforts to limit average global warming to 2 °C (McGlade and Ekins in Nature 517:187–190, 2015). Consequently, the way in which problems and solutions regarding Arctic oil and gas are defined and promoted has global significance.

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Footnotes
1
To frame is to select some aspects of perceived reality and make them more salient in a communicating text, in order to promote a particular problem definition, causal interpretation, moral evaluation, and/or treatment recommendation (Entman 1993, 52). The last two issues in Entman’s definition of framing—moral evaluation and treatment recommendation—appear particularly suitable for the analysis of the Arctic case.
 
2
According to Goffman’s classic work on frame analysis, meanings only arise in processes of interaction, interpretation, and contextualization (Goffman 1974, 24; Vliegenthart and van Zoonen 2011, 103).
 
3
Arctic Oil and Gas. Sustainability at risk?, edited by Aslaug Mikkelsen and Oluf Langhelle, analyzes the expanding oil and gas activities in the Arctic from the perspective of sustainable development and corporate social responsibility, and presents findings on how “sustainable development” is understood and how further oil and gas extraction in the Arctic is often perceived compatible with it.
 
4
For more on how the discourse was constructed, see Notes on the material in the end of this chapter.
 
5
For example, President of Iceland, Arctic Circle 2014.
 
6
For example, Shell Alaska Science Team Lead, Premier of Quebec, President of Finland, President of Iceland, Prime Minister of Iceland, Chancellor of Germany, Arctia Shipping CEO, Umoe CEO, Team Arctic Finland at the Arctic Circle 2014.
 
7
At the Arctic Circle 2014 for instance researchers from Arctic University of Norway and UCLA.
 
8
Prince of Monaco, Arctic Circle 2014; Executive Director of International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry, Arctic Frontiers 2015; Professor Emeritus of Marine and Environmental Affairs University of Washington, Arctic Frontiers 2015.
 
9
Executive director, The Research Council of Norway, Arctic Frontiers 2015; also the report of an independent research group presented at the Arctic Frontiers 2015, Prime Minister’s Office Publications 2015.
 
10
For example, CEO, DNV GL Group; Leader WWF Global Climate and Energy Initiative, Arctic Frontiers 2015.
 
11
For example, Executive vice president, Statoil (Exploration), Arctic Frontiers 2015.
 
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Metadata
Title
The Arctic Paradox (and How to Solve It). Oil, Gas and Climate Ethics in the Arctic
Author
Teemu Palosaari
Copyright Year
2019
Book
The GlobalArctic Handbook

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-91994-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-91995-9

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91995-9_9