{"id":8047,"date":"2024-11-18T10:35:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T01:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/?p=8047"},"modified":"2024-12-02T13:35:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T04:35:44","slug":"241118-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/241118-1\/","title":{"rendered":"A special seminar was held at the Arctic Research Center with Dr. Espiritu Aileen, who is visiting the Center."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, November 12, 2024, the Arctic Research Center held a special seminar with Dr. Espiritu Aileen, a researcher and visiting professor at the Barents Institute of the University of Troms\u00f8, the Arctic University of Norway. Dr. Espiritu was visiting the Center to discuss research plans with Associate Professor Saunavaara Juha of the Center. The format of the seminar was hybrid, with a total of nine participants (including one online). Espiritu gave a talk titled \u201c<span>Bridging economic development and urban sustainability towards the UN Agenda 2030: comparing Troms\u00f8 in the Arctic and Muroran in Northern Japan.\u201d In her speech, Dr. Espiritu explained the similarities and differences between Troms\u00f8, Norway, and Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan, which have almost the same population size, in terms of environment, economy, and policies. She stated that the two cities have a lot in common in realizing the SDGs including zero carbon and renewable energy development. Information exchange and cooperation between cities trying to advance the UN SDGs are important.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_8048\" style=\"width: 582px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Aileen2-572x760.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"572\" height=\"760\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8048\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8048\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lecturer Espiritu (right) and co-researcher Saunavaara (Arctic Research Center) (left)<\/p><\/div><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Tuesday, November 12, 2024, the Arctic Research Center held a special seminar with Dr. Espiritu Aileen, a r [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nocategory","category-hai-fes-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8047"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8060,"href":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047\/revisions\/8060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}