”The Polar regions are nature's early warning systems where human-induced climate change, the thinning of the ozone layer up to the impacts of persistent chemical pollution continue to be registered first”.

Press release by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), WED 2007

“At Tromsø there is a broad milieu in  polar research in the Polar Environmental Centre, the University and other institutions. Here people now honour and pursue the achievements of fishermen, hunters and explorers like Nobile, Andrée, Nansen and Amundsen.“
Gunn Sissel Jaklin, Norwegian Polar Institute, chairman of the local WED