Charles K Ebinger & Evie Zambetakis, of the Energy Security Initiative at Brookings Institution state that the prospect of longer ice-free periods in the Arctic has momentous implications for the region's commercial development, in itself a further risk to melting Arctic ice. In an article in International Affairs, Chatham House' bi-monthly, "The Geopolitics of Arctic Melt",they argue that Arctic melt does and will continue to pose economic, military and environmental challenges to the governance of the region and explore the role of technological factors as both a barrier and an enabler of access and that working within existing institutions and building capacity is preferable to the proliferation of new institutions, although the full structure and scope of the legal and regulatory frameworks that may be needed are, at present, unclear.
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