Interview with professor D Suba Chandran
India has a well-developed Antarctic program, and the country is a relatively new actor in the Arctic. It received an Observer status in the Arctic Council in 2013, published its official Arctic Policy in 2022. India’s interest to the Polar region is ...
... the challenges of melting glaciers and water insecurity exacerbated by climate change. Since 2011, a series of Arctic Circle Assemblies hosted in Iceland have sparked debate on the subject. Over the subsequent ten years, in scientific events under The Third Pole Environment Program (TPE), a cooperation involving Iceland, India, Bhutan and China, researchers discussed scientific methods developed in the Arctic and how they might be applied in the Third Pole, where the scope of the climate change consequences is not fully understood, and scientific data is lacking.
Since ...