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BALANCE Homepage
BALANCE is an EU funded project (2002-2005) that aims to assess the vulnerabilities of the Barents Sea system to climate change based on a common modelling framework for major environmental and societal components and on combining them through an Integrated Assessment Model (IAM).

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Arctic Centre
The University of Lapland’s Arctic Centre is a research and science centre located near the Arctic Circle.

Barents portal
Barents Information Service is a Finnish, Norwegian, Russian and Swedish cooperation project to build a portal for the Barents region and also increase general knowledge of the Barents region internationally. The project is funded by the European Union Kolartic Interreg program.

Circumarctic Environmental Observatories Network
CEON is a network of terrestrial and freshwater observation platforms, science experts and network partners promoting the collection of environmental data from the Arctic.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been established by WMO and UNEP to assess scientific, technical and socio- economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation