A video conference of the Sustainable Development Working Group (SDWG) was held at the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic.

Representatives of all Arctic Council countries discussed the implementation of already launched international projects and new projects.

Yury Vasiliev, Executive Director of the Institute of Arctic Technologies (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) presented to international partners a project AHEAD (Arctic Hydrogen Energy Applications and Demonstrations).

All projects (including the AHEAD project) will be discussud before approval at the end of March 2020 in Iceland at a meeting of Arctic Council representatives.

Russia will chair the Arctic Council from 2021 to 2023.