Join us as part of the World Economic Forum's Davos Agenda on 27 January 2021 where we have an engaging schedule of online conversations and entertainment

Part 1 - A Plan for the Planet: The Arctic & Beyond - streaming LIVE at 19.00 CET

Arctic Basecamp—a team of Arctic experts and scientists—are hosting a high level panel as part of the media programme at the World Economic Forum’s Davos Agenda week. In partnership with the World Economic Forum the panel to be moderated by Justin Worland from TIME Magazine, to discuss what happened to the Arctic in 2020, why protecting it from warming matters; and what positive, inclusive and sustainable decisions we can take, including policy, science, technology and the public to slow global climate change and achieve a post-pandemic recovery.

Using the Artic as an initial lens to zoom out to the overall climate crisis, how can we achieve systemic changes?

Panelists:

Watch live below at 19:00 CET or HERE.

Part 2 - Make Earth Cool Again: An Arctic Basecamp Science Jam - streaming at 20.00-22.00 CET

Following the High-Level Panel, Arctic Basecamp will be hosting an engaging schedule of online conversations to “Make Earth Cool Again”, hosted live by Rainn Wilson and Parisa Fitz Henley.

This two hour long free live virtual programme brings together scientists, experts and entertainers in fireside chats, interviews, skits (by award winning comedy writer Chuck Tatham from Modern Family, Arrested Development, How I Met Your Mother) and performances to highlight the urgency of fighting climate change through supporting low carbon action and education – in a really accessible way. 

Watch this space for some big programme announcements!

The event will be live streamed on SoulPancake’s YouTube channel HERE.

“If we do not protect the Arctic from climate change today, we will not be able to achieve a prosperous post-pandemic future,” says Gail Whiteman, founder of not-for-profit Arctic Basecamp. “The wellbeing of our environments, economies, and societies depend on a stable Arctic.”

— Gail Whiteman, Founder of Arctic Basecamp and Professor of Sustainability at the University of Exeter Business School

Arctic Basecamp at The Davos Agenda Week was made possible with the financial support of WWF, BNP Paribas and Participant Media.

Special thanks to Rainn Wilson, SoulPancake, Chuck Tatham, Houdini Sportswear, Franses, Global Strategic Communications Council and the University of Exeter’s Business School

2020 was a year of alarming climate records for the Arctic. Wildfires set a pollution record, sea ice coverage contracted to a near-unprecedented minimum, a record breaking heatwave hit the region, and sea ice did not begin to refreeze in the Eurasian sector for the first time since at least 1979. But what happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic, with Arctic warming worsening extreme weather events around the world, from the Godzilla dust storm that travelled from the Sahara to the Americas, to the California wildfires, to the record-breaking temperatures in Death Valley, and to the extreme snowfalls in Italy, Spain, and Japan in early winter 2020/21.

With all the support from the team, partners, sponsors and activists, we can help save the Arctic!

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Arctic Basecamp
California Wildfires

The Facts

The Arctic has been described as the canary in the coalmine for the health of the global environment. It is a complex region that is experiencing unprecedented change.