Updated 2005-10-03
AMAP has decided to prepare an assessment of the environmental impacts of oil and gas developments in the Arctic and of pollution by petroleum hydrocarbons. The assessment is planned to be ready in 2006. NERI will co-ordinate the Danish/Greenlandic contribution.
This is a National Implementation Plan (NIP) project
Time frame
- Status
- Ongoing
- Project time span
- 2004 - 2006
- Data collection
- 2004 - 2006
- Data processing
- 2005 - 2006
- Data reporting
- 2005 - 2006
Data availability
- Are data archived or planned to be archived at an AMAP Thematic Data Centre?
- yes-all
- Data centres
- Marine TDC
References to key publications (or planned publications) and data reports
Arctic Council Oil and Gas Assessment
- Samples/specimens archived in specimen banks?
- No
Methods & Procedures
Not specified
Additional Information
- Is this a bi- AND multi-lateral project (i.e. a project involving cooperation between different countries)?
- No
- Other institutes involved in the project
Marine Research Institute (Bergen, Norway)
- Is this project reporting to other organizations/programmes?
CAFF, seabird working group