How U.S. Arctic Policy and Posture Could Change Under President-elect Biden Truth, trust, and transparency are key aspects to sound and sustainable governance of the Arctic, said Ulf Sverdrup, Director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. He was one of a panel of experts who spoke on Nov. 30 at “The Arctic in a Post-Election World,” the first event in a two-part series sponsored by the Wilson Center’s Polar Institute. Climate Change While President-elect Biden has shared little about his plan for the Arctic, the panelists agreed that a Biden presidency will likely place a renewed emphasis on diplomacy and cooperation on Arctic issues. “Incoming president, President-elect Biden, has already announced that the United States will rejoin the Paris Agreement and presumably will once again become one of the leaders in supporting efforts to combat climate change at the international level,” said Ambassador David Balton, Senior Fellow with the Wilson Center’s Polar Institute and former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries at the U.S. State Department. “I would expect to see the United States pushing for steps to be taken in the Arctic,” he said, “to address problems of climate change, you know, more aggressively than in the last four years.”