Professor Gail Whiteman, Director of the Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business and ICE-ARC Work Package leader explains why we should be concerned about figures from the National Snow and Ice Data Center which show that this year’s summer sea ice melt in the Arctic was the second lowest on record.
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Read the series of three WEF blogs on Arctic change:

Forget the FTSE 500: the Arctic is the real barometer of global risk

Greenland’s ice sheets are disappearing faster than predicted – here’s why you should care

The Arctic just had the warmest winter on record. The repercussions will be global