Роль эколого-климатического аспекта в повестке международного сотрудничества в Арктике

Анализ и прогноз. Журнал ИМЭМО РАН. 2026. № 1. С. 40–55.

Chistikov M.

The issues of environmental protection and climate change mitigation are objectively significant for the Arctic, as they directly affect the security of the countries of the region. As a result, cooperation on these issues has traditionally occupied an important part of the agenda of international cooperation in the region, both within the framework of multilateral institutions and on a bilateral basis. Nevertheless, the dynamics of environmental and climatic cooperation in the Arctic is contradictory and unstable. In particular, in the period 2014-2022 cooperation in this area has been actively developing, and environmental protection issues have become key on the agenda of international cooperation. However, in the context of the international political crisis of 2022, it was the ecological and climatic international institutions that found themselves in the most vulnerable position: some of them ceased to exist, and some were deformed, becoming less effective tools for ensuring environmental and climate security in the region. Within the framework of the article, an explanation of the logic of the transformation of cooperation in the field of environment and climate change in the Arctic in the context of the international political crises of 2014 and 2022 was proposed. This explanation is based on the analysis of the global and regional context and using the interest-based approach. It was found that in the period 2014-2022 the observed increase in the role of environmental protection issues is due, firstly, to the intensification of global efforts to combat climate change and, secondly, to an attempt to preserve the institutional structure of international cooperation in the Arctic, replacing with environmental and climate issues those areas of cooperation in which interaction turned out to be complicated during the international crisis of 2014. Vulnerability of environmental and climatic institutions under the influence of the international political crisis of 2022 was due to the fact that Western countries were no longer interested in maintaining a system of international cooperation in the region.

Keywords: международные институты, Арктический совет, Совет Баренцева/Евроарктического региона, international institutions, international regimes, международные режимы, Arctic Council, Barents/Euro-Arctic Council, environmental governance, экологическое управление

Publication based on the results of: Analysis of the long-term impacts of climate change, areas of adaptation and measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Russia and its BRICS and SCO partners (2025)