Descripción del proyecto
Un plan para un futuro ártico más limpio y saludable
En el Ártico europeo, la contaminación, como los microplásticos y las emisiones tóxicas del tráfico marítimo ártico, y los factores de estrés climático constituyen una amenaza para los ecosistemas y las comunidades. En este contexto, el proyecto ICEBERG, financiado con fondos europeos, tiene un objetivo doble, a saber: 1) evaluar las fuentes, tipos, distribución y efectos de la contaminación y los factores de estrés climático utilizando el enfoque «Una sola salud» y 2) desarrollar estrategias de control de la contaminación, en colaboración con las comunidades indígenas y locales, que incluyan la mitigación (reducción de la contaminación) y la adaptación (minimización de la vulnerabilidad a la contaminación), utilizando estrategias con múltiples partes interesadas y sensibles a las cuestiones de género. Para ello, ICEBERG se centra en tres estudios de casos, a saber: el oeste de Svalbard, el sur de Kalaallit Nunaat (Groenlandia) y el norte de Islandia. Los resultados de ICEBERG fomentarán iniciativas de gobernanza innovadoras para el control de la contaminación a múltiples escalas en el frágil continuo océano-tierra del Ártico.
Objetivo
The ICEBERG project has a two-fold aim: to comprehensively assess sources, types, distributions, and impacts of pollution in combination with chronic climate-induced stressors on ecosystems and communities in the European Arctic's land-ocean continuum using a One Health approach, and to develop strategies for enhancing community-led resilience, as well as pollution-control governance. To this end, the project focusses on three (sub)regional case studies: western Svalbard, southern Greenland, and northern Iceland. ICEBERG investigates known and emerging pollutants, including macro-, micro, nanoplastics, ship emissions, wastewater, persistent organic pollutants (Dioxins, PCBs, PFAS, PAHs, old and new generation pesticides), and terrigenous elements (heavy metals). To assess the effects of pollutant discharges from Arctic ship traffic, freshwater discharge/cryosphere meltwater, wastewater, and land-based atmospheric pollution on the marine food web the project is using model simulations and complementing these with remote sensing, in-situ observations, and measurements. ICEBERG analyses the sanitary quality of the food chain by characterising chemical contaminants using an exposomics approach, gaining a comprehensive understanding of the synergistic impacts of Climate Change and pollution on human health. It evaluates toxicological impact of micro- and nano-plastics and POPs on human digestive health. The project develops automatic marine litter detection tools combining use of drones, AI and citizen science. ICEBERG champions multi-stakeholder and gender-based approaches to assess the impacts, risks, and vulnerabilities on Indigenous and local communities and co-create scenarios of change. Scenario modelling is used to co-design local pollution-control strategies, which includes both mitigation (reducing pollution) and adaptation (reducing vulnerability to pollution). ICEBERG creates novel governance approaches pollution-control in the Arctic at multiple scales.
Ámbito científico
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processes
- social sciencessociologygovernance
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil society
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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Convocatoria de propuestas
HORIZON-CL6-2023-ZEROPOLLUTION-01
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinador
90014 Oulu
Finlandia