AFI Values and Benefits

AFI is designed to serve a large range of organizational needs related to a forward-looking understanding of Arctic risks and opportunities:

• Resource companies for whom the accelerated melting of the sea ice presents easier and cheaper access to oil, natural gas, fisheries, and minerals. They need to understand not only the opportunities related to the Arctic, but also the risks and the competitive dynamics.
• Port authorities whose business models may be upended – for good and ill – by changes in world trade routes.
• Governments and military who may be under- or mis-resourced for Arctic activities, vulnerable to the claims of other nations and a surge in commercial activity, or who risk being shut out of the Arctic altogether.
• Financial institutions and investors who need a framework for assessing winners and losers across a range of plausible Arctic scenarios, and performing Arctic due diligence.
• Shipping companies and shipping customers who need to understand the potential for cost savings, as well as the potential downsides of altered global shipping patterns.
• Manufacturers and service providers, the demand for whose products could be affected by massive change in the Arctic.
• NGOs and advocacy groups that work in Arctic issues or whose work will be affected by unpredictable developments in the North.