Zhen Zhang had the pleasure of participating in the final expert workshop for the "EU Arctic Footprint & Policy Assessment." The assessment is produced by researchers from the Ecologic Institute (Germany), the Sustainable Europe Research Institute (Austria), the Arctic Centre/University of Lapland (Finland) and the Stockholm Environmental Institute (Sweden). The audience was composed of mainly government representatives (EU, Greenland, Norway, Netherlands, Canada & US) and research organizations (Institute for Environmental Security of the Netherlands and the Scott Polar Research Institute of the University of Cambridge).