Giving evidence on the Arctic
Giving evidence on the Arctic This week, Fitzwilliam Fellow, Dr Richard Powell, has been giving evidence to the House of Commons’ Foreign Affairs Select Committee Inquiry into Environmental Diplomacy. Dr Powell is currently a Reader in Arctic Studies, and the Principal Investigator in a five-year Arctic Cultures project, undertaken at the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge. Select Committees work in both UK Houses of Parliament and those in the Commons are primarily concerned with examining the work of government departments. There is a Commons...