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Arctic Expedition strikes at heart of climate change
Photo: Explorers George Cunningham, Grant Redevers and the good ship "Tara".
Tara Arctic Expedition leader Grant Redevers joined New Zealand's Minister for the Environment and Climate Change Hon. Dr. Nick Smith and EU Delegation Chargé d'Affaires a.i. George Cunningham at the opening of the photographic exhibition "Polar Night" to run 18 August to 17 October at the Museum of Wellington City and Sea.
The schooner Tara, which features so prominently in these photos, visited the Arctic as part of the European Union's research programme DAMOCLES to assess the negative impacts of significantly-reduced sea ice cover on the environment and humanity.
George Cunningham said: "The Arctic is but one of the many fronts we need to fight on to reduce the negative impacts of climate change. Every country – whether big or small – counts. Building an emissions trading scheme which is ultimately tradable across the world is one of our mutual challenges right now. The ultimate test must be the extent of real reductions of emissions which really do mitigate the worst effects of this, the greatest challenge facing us in the 21st century ".
17 August 2010
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