Abstract

SANTOS, Leo Evandro Figueiredo dos; JUNIOR, Enoil de Souza; SIMOES, Jefferson Cardia  and  FILIPPI, Eduardo Ernesto. Brazil and the Arctic. Finisterra [online]. 2018, n.107, pp.125-139. ISSN 0430-5027.  https://doi.org/10.18055/Finis11943.

This article presents the geographical definition of the Arctic and identifies the complex international regime that consolidates over the international seabed and waters of the Arctic Ocean and adjacent seas. This scheme is based on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) implementation. Concerns, interests and changes over the Arctic region are also discussed, involving issues such as: environment, climate change, sustainable development, resource exploitation, especially fisheries and oil and gas, (new) sea routes, strategy and security, considering possible territorial disputes. But mainly speculates about the possibility of the effects of climate change on the Arctic Region generating impacts on the Brazilian and South American space and environment. Based on these assumptions, it considers the pertinence of the Brazilian insertion in the region, through the development of associated scientific research, the accession of Brazil to the Arctic Council (AC), International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) and Svalbard Treaty and its work in the United Nations, mainly to the UNCLOS and the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) and other regimes in which issues relevant to the Arctic are discussed.

Keywords : Arctic; Brazil; climate change; international forums; UNCLOS; Arctic Council.

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