Arctic Council Working Groups

• ACAP: Arctic Council Action Plan To Eliminate Pollution Of The Arctic
• AMAP: Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Pro gram
• CAFF: Conservation of Arctic Flora nd Fauna
• EPPR: Emergency Prevention, Preparedness and Response
• PAME: Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment
• SDWG: Sustainable Development Working Group

Arctic Council Member Countries

• Canada
• Denmark (including Greenland and the Faroe Islands)
• Finland
• Iceland
• Norway
• The Russian Federation
• Sweden
• The United States

Arctic Council Permanent Participants

The Indigenous Peoples of the Arctic are full participants in the workings of the Arctic Council and they include:

            ·        Indigenous Peoples Secretariat

            ·        Aleut International Association

·        Arctic Athabaskan Council

·        Gwich'in Council International 

·        Inuit Circumpolar Conference

·        Saami Council

·        Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North

Official Non-Arctic Country Observers to the Arctic Council

·         France

·         Germany

·         The Netherlands

·         Poland

·         United Kingdom 

Official International Organization Observers to the Arctic Council

·        Conference of the Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region 

·        International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

·         International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

·         Nordic Council of Ministers (NCM)

·        Northern Forum

·         North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO)

·         United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE)

·        United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)

Official Non-Governmental Organization Observers to the Arctic Council

·         Advisory Committee on Protection of the Seas (ACOPS)

·         Association of World Reindeer Herders

·         Circumpolar Conservation Union (CCU)

·         International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) 

·         International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA)

·         International Union for Circumpolar Health (IUCH)

·       International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)

·        University of the Arctic (UArctic)

·        Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF)