Why a bottled warning?
We wanted to put fresh, natural, unadulterated climate facts right under the noses of world leaders, COP26 delegates, climate deniers and reporters in Glasgow. This high profile campaign brought Arctic glacial meltwater right into the heart of COP 26.
We worked with a Greenlandic enterprise to collect Greenland glacial meltwater at source and worked with a Scottish bottling partner to bottle it into a ‘a single serving of alarming climate facts’. A Bottled Warning.
These bottles were delivered to COP26 sites and made available at our Arctic Basecamp tent – we will also try and get a bottle to each world leader.
Each limited edition bottle contains messages of risk and the advice not to waste these precious glaciers.
Find out more HERE
What we do
We are a team of Arctic experts and scientists who ‘speak science to power’ in order to encourage bold climate action.
Arctic Basecamp was created by Professor Gail Whiteman, as a vehicle to bring this message of Arctic risk to global leaders. We work with global scientists and world-class organisations and individuals raising awareness of the global risks from Arctic change and to highlight the urgent need for scalable solutions to climate change.
Our flagship event brings the Arctic to the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting at Davos where we set up a real Arctic science basecamp, with an expedition tent acting as our workplace during the day and our dormitory at night, camping in sub-zero temperatures calling for action from global leaders to apply responsive and responsible leadership to address global risks from Arctic change.
In 2021, when Covid-19 meant that we couldn’t meet face to face we took our Arctic Basecamp online. We hosted a high level panel as part of the Davos Agenda followed by a virtual programme of engaging content.
We attended COP26 in November 2021 where we launched the prototype of a brand new Arctic Risk Platform – the next iteration of our work.
We will be attending the rescheduled WEF Annual Meeting in Davos in summer 2022.
WHY we are raising the #arcticalarm
Every mid-September, the Arctic summer sea ice melts to its lowest point. Currently, the Arctic ice is tracking at an all-time low. Greenland is melting significantly and Arctic peatland fires are raging. This is a worrying sign of climate change. All of the data show that the Arctic is in crisis – this large system has entered an ‘unprecedented state’.
Summer sea ice has been around for thousands of years, it may be gone soon, unless we bend the emissions curve
#ArcticAlarm
What's at stake in the Arctic is actually the future of humanity itself
– Professor Gail Whiteman, founder of Arctic Basecamp
All companies are embedded in the natural world, whether they recognise that or not. We’re not separate and economics can’t wish those interconnections away
Davos Agenda 2021
January 2021 we hosted a high level panel followed by Make Earth Cool Again – an engaging schedule of online conversations and entertainment.
Davos 2020
January 2020 we set up the Arctic Basecamp at the World Economic Forum (WEF) once again.
United Nations Climate Week
In September, the United Nations 2019 Climate Summit convened on the theme, ‘A Race We Can Win. A Race We Must Win.’
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