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Polar Futures (2021) - Episode 5, Author Anne Kirstine Hermann
When we spoke with Greenland’s Foreign Minister Pele Broberg on his country’s efforts to secure greater economic and political self-determination from Denmark, he was very excited about a book that had just been released in Denmark that he believed could really change the conversation around Greenland’s relationship with Denmark. Our guest on this episode is Anne Kirstine Hermann, the Danish journalist who wrote that book, Imperiets børn (Children of the Empire), on Denmark’s attempts to absorb the world’s largest island in the post-World War II, essentially colonizing it while denying that it was being colonized.
In this final episode of Investable Universe's five-part Polar Futures series, we discuss what happened, what it was like for Greenland, and how that legacy is still in evidence in Greenland and in Danish-Greenlandic relations. Anne Kirstine Hermann is a PhD journalist and Fulbright Scholar. Imperiets børn was written with support from the Kim Wall Memorial Fund and the Carlsberg Foundation in Denmark
In the spring of 2021, a controversial rare earth metals mining project proposed in Greenland thrust the island’s “kitchen-table economic issues” to the very center of the geopolitical stage. A snap election was called over whether to mine critical metals at the site, called Kvanefjeld—an election that resulted in a clear “no” vote from the Greenlandic people and ended decades of rule by the dominant Siumut Party. It is fair to say that this was a “No” heard round the world, ushering in a new coalition government led by the Inuit Ataqatigiit and Naleraq parties, and a new approach to self-determination and natural resource management for Greenland as it asserts its newly strategic role in the Arctic—a cold region, hotly contested.
For this episode of Polar Futures, a special Investable Universe series on investing in Arctic real assets, our guest was the individual leading Greenland’s government efforts in these areas, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Trade, Business and Climate, Pele Broberg
27 Jun 2022
Polar Futures (2021) Episode 3 - PolArctic CEO Leslie Cannavera
This is Part 3 of a five-part series, Polar Futures, produced by Investable Universe in 2021. When discussing the emerging Arctic economy, the focus is often on extractable natural resources, and how those are protected, exploited, or sustainably harvested. But what might be the ultimate resource—what has elsewhere been called, not without good reason, “the new oil”—is data, the fuel of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Our guest this episode is a pioneering innovator of that powerful resource. Leslie Cannavera is the CEO of PolArctic, which develops artificial intelligence and machine learning models for companies working in the Arctic region. Specifically, the company has developed a customizable neural network algorithm (called Ice Cubed) based on historical data and trends that can forecast up to a year the future ice breakup and ice freeze patterns in the Arctic.
Leslie Cannavera is a United States Air Force veteran who served as a Commissioned Officer. PolArctic is a member of the Arctic Economic Council (AEC), and Leslie currently leads the AEC Blue Economy Working Group (BEWG), and serves on the Maritime Working Group and the Infrastructure and Investments working group (IIWG).
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Published 27 Sept 2019 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And so there's no way to predict that. But think about it. If you're buying something that's trading sideways and it's going to stay that way, regardless of what the stock market does, you're going to have a stabilizer in your portfolio. So grains will trade at a price based on supply and demand. […]
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