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MILUTARENA-Formidlings- og koordineringstiltak knyttet for miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Arctic Frontiers Emerging Leaders 2022

Awarded: NOK 34,999

Emerging Leaders is an early-career and mentoring program in the Arctic for young professionals from the academic, industry and policy sector. The program brings together leaders and mentors, and indigenous, business, and policy representatives, to tell the Arctic stories in an educational journey through Northern Norway. Through training, educational and cultural activities, and the contributions of competent and committed partners, the Emerging Leaders program serves as an international and cross-cultural platform for dialogue and exchange to support the arctic leaders of the future. I am engaged in project called interdisciplinary carbon capture and usage (iCCU) where the aim is to use CO2 from factory smoke to produce marine biomass (algae). The goal is to achieve large-scale CO2 mitigation and to reduce CO2- footprint of fish feed. The latter is achieved by replacing soy and wild fish with algae biomass in fish feed. The project has potential benefits related to marine wildlife by reducing the risk of spreading salmon lice to wild salmon and by reducing the need to use wild fish as feed in salmon farming, thereby reducing the need for industrial fishery. My research is related to environmental ethics, where my aim is to assess the above-mentioned carbon capture and usage technology in light of environmental virtue ethics (EVE). A basic claim in EVE is that human flourishing, well-being, and happiness depends on environmental virtues such as ecosystem sustainability and stewardship. Further development and application of this ethical framework may provide important insights for future decision-makers by illuminating the relationship between how we structure our industries and the impact this has on the natural environment. Furthermore, I investigate how our materialistic values and our consumption may impact our environment and how a new perspective on industry development may contribute to more sustainable societies for human and non-human life.

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MILUTARENA-Formidlings- og koordineringstiltak knyttet for miljø- og utviklingsforskning