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Af redaktion 22-06 2009 - 16:08

Greenpeace ship ‘Arctic Sunrise’ arrived in Greenland yesterday to begin a research journey to highlight climate change in the Arctic.

The ship, with some of the world’s leading climate experts onboard, will document and research the escalating climate change taking place in Greenland. There are also journalists onboard who will be able to report the research news back to their respective countries. The journalists will also play an important role in informing their governments about the affects of climate change ahead of the UN climate conference, according to Mads Flarup Christensen, secretary general of Greenpeace Nordic.

‘We are aware that there are dramatic events taking place in northern Greenland,’ Christensen said. ‘It’s extremely important that this information is reported back to the politicians who will be making decisions for the climate agreement in Copenhagen this December.’

The ship set anchor in Greenland’s capital Nuuk on Monday, were Josef Motzfeldt, the newly appointed parliamentary speaker, was one of the politicians to pay a visit.

The packed itinerary for the ship and its crew includes sailing to northern Greenland, where from 3 July to 8 August the researchers will be conducting field work on the Peterman Glacier, documenting its reactions to climate change and the stability of an ice section the size of Manhattan that is threatening to brake away from the glacier.

Field work documentation of climate change from the Peterman glacier could prove vital for the climate negotiations, as it could produce important new evidence. It is the most northerly research conducted by Greenpeace.

The ship will later resume its research journey on Greenland’s eastern coastline before sailing on to Svalbard, Norway’s northern island archipelago.