Prof. Hossain spoke at the science session of the Arcsus-SDG workshop in Reykjavik!

 

The Nordic Council of Ministers’ funded project entitled “Arctic Urban Sustainability and the UN Sustainable Development Goals through the Lens of Arctic Mayor Forum”, organized its first gathering as a Pre-event in connection to the Arctic Circle Assembly 2023, held from October 19-22, 2023. The workshop was a pre-event organized on October 18 at the University of Iceland’s Veröld-House of Vigdís. The event was divided into two sessions – the first session contained academic presentations from scholars from the participating universities in the project. The participating universities are the Luleå University of Technology, UiT Arctic University of Norway, University of Iceland, University of Lapland and Hokkaido University. The second part of the program included round-table discussions where representatives from Arctic cities as delegates from the Arctic Mayor Forum engaged in dialogue amongst themselves and with scholars. The round-table discussions brought pictures of the challenges facing the Arctic cities and how such challenges are addressed with clear action plans to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In his academic presentation, Prof. Hossain highlighted the need for a bottom-up approach to governance to meaningfully address local challenges through the engagement of local and regional institutions to which the Arctic Mayor Forum can play an effective and influential role.