Teresa Barros Cardoso
It is unacceptable how a response from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has made it impossible to create a national action framework for the Arctic, under the terms of Assembly of the Republic Resolution 76/2023 of 29 June.
The Arctic is today of such global importance — in terms of security, given the interests of various States in exploiting the region’s natural resources, and in terms of the environment and climate at a planetary scale — that it demands the mobilisation of the international community as a whole (Azam & Iqbal, 2023).
