News archive - 2015: Overview

Season’s Greeting from ICC Greenland 2014

Dear colleagues, Enclosed is ICC Greenland’s holiday greetings. The office will be closed between Christmas and the New Year. See you next year. Download <media 607 – – “TEXT, ICC Greenland Holiday Greeting 2014, ICC_Greenland_Holiday_Greeting_2014.pdf, 758 KB”>greetings</media> as PDF (758 KB)

Congratulations to the new Inatsisartut and coming Naalakkersuisut

Press release, Nuuk, December 7, 2014 The election is settled and a new Inatsisartut can reconvene. On behalf of the Inuit Circumpolar Council – Greenland (ICC-Greenland) I want to express my congratulations to all newly elected and re-elected members to Inatsisartut. A new coalition with Siumut,…

Comments on the Climate change and increased dialogue

Press release, November 6, 2014 By Hjalmar Dahl, ICC Greenland President The course is set! We are moving towards four degrees of global warming. But the UN Climate Panel and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has retained some optimism if the states are united in…

New leadership in ICC Greenland

By Hjalmar Dahl, ICC Greenland President, October 2014 The ICC General Assembly in July 2014 in Inuvik outcome document Kitigaaryuit Declaration gave the new Executive Council mandate to work further with utmost important issues the next four years. The first council meeting will take place…

ICC says goodbye to two employees

News, Nuuk – June 9, 2014 BJARNE LYBERTH: Executive Science Advisor to ICC, Bjarne (Ababsi) Lyberth, terminated his position on June 1, 2014. Bjarne Lyberth began working as an advisor to ICC in May 2012, and ICC is grateful for the last two years of collaboration. We…

More pictures from the TFBCM meeting in Helsinki ICC encourages Naalakkersuisut to make a plan for soot and methane

Press release May 27, 2014 Inuit sat at the table when the eight Arctic states met in Helsinki last week to discuss the steps that can be taken to reduce emissions of soot and methane. The vision is for the Arctic to show leadership. (Danish)…

ICC cheaper for Greenlandic citizen

ICC in Greenland receives less state aid than ICC in Canada, shows an inventory. The argument from Naalakkersuisut, that the organisation should be particularly expensive in this country, is not valid. (Danish) ICC i Grønland modtager mindre statsstøtte end ICC i Canada, viser en opgørelse….

This is how Naalakkersuisut should improve public participation

Press release, March 25, 2014 (Danish) NGO koalitionen har i dag overdraget sine anbefalinger om bedre borgerinddragelse til Naalakkersuisut. Ved overdragelsen deltog Naalakkersuisoq for Erhverv, Råstoffer og Arbejdsmarked Jens Erik Kirkegaard og Naalakkersuisoq for Uddannelse, kirke, kultur og ligestilling Nick Nielsen. Medlemmerne af Naalakkersuisut udtrykte…

Report from Arctic Peoples’ Conference +40

Inuit Circumpolar Council and Saami Council celebrated 40 years’ anniversary of the first Arctic Peoples’ Conference. The Arctic Peoples’ Conference was held in Christiansborg, Copenhagen on 21-22 November 2013. The Conference was sponsored by the Nordic Council of Ministers. Here, you can find the report…

Aqqaluk Lynge’s speech at Arctic Frontiers 2014

Read the speech by Aqqaluk Lynge, Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC): Inuit in the New Arctic: Challenges of change at Arctic Frontiers conference in Tromsø Humans in the Arctic – preparing the new Arctic future Policy section – Session III: Health, Society and…

Satisfied with the ICC Executive Council meeting

Press release Nuuk, January 16, 2015 January 15, 2015 was the last day of meetings for the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) Executive Council. During the three days of the meeting the delegation of tasks between the regional offices in Alaska, Canada, Chukotka and Greenland has…

ICC Executive Council meets in Nuuk

Press release Nuuk, January 13, 2015 Today, January 13, 2015 the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) new Executive Committee held its first meeting in Nuuk after the ICC General Assembly in July 2014 in Canada. At the meeting, which lasts until Friday January 15, the Board…

New Year’s statement from ICC Greenland

January 4, 2015 On behalf of ICC Greenland I wish everyone in Greenland a happy and prosperous New Year. In July 2014 the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) held a General Assembly in Inuvik in Canada. The General Assembly also meant a shift change in the international board, and…

Indigenous peoples and EU

Press release, Nuuk, March 21, 2015 Inuit Circumpolar Council – Greenland (ICC-Greenland) is participating in the days of March 23-24, 2015 in a meeting in connection with a revision of the EU policy objectives about indigenous peoples. The meeting will take place in Brussels. The…