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• AQA: 3.2.5.2 Natural resource issues; 3.2.5.5 Mineral security; 3.2.5.6 Resource futures

• Edexcel: Topic 7: Superpowers

• Eduqas and WJEC: 2.2.6 to 2.2.10: Global Governance of the Earth’s Oceans; 3.2.7 Sustainable use of the Arctic tundra biome

• OCR: 2.2.4 Global Governance: Option D — Power and Borders; 4.c. Climate change is altering high latitude oceans

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Why Donald Trump wants Greenland

‘You don’t just go and buy a country’: Greenland plunged into geopolitical storm

• Explain how the acquisition of Greenland by the US could pose challenges in the region

• Evaluate how sovereignty over places such as Greenland is a contested issue

• Discuss how climate change is increasing the geostrategic importance of Greenland

• Explain the geopolitical concerns of the United States regarding Chinese and Russian interest in the Arctic

• Considering the melting Arctic routes and increasing accessibility, evaluate the environmental, political, and economic implications of new shipping lanes for Arctic nations

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Rachel Owen, Royal Geographical Society