section_path: International cooperation and politics/Preservation
section_name: Preservation
paragraph_text: Preservation
  
  There have been many proposals to preserve the Arctic over the years. Most recently a group of stars at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, on 21 June 2012, proposed protecting the Arctic, similar to the Antarctic Treaty System. The initial focus of the campaign will be a UN resolution creating a global sanctuary around the pole, and a ban on oil drilling and unsustainable fishing in the Arctic.
  
  The Arctic has climate change rates that are amongst the highest in the world. Due to the major impacts to the region from climate change the near climate future of the region will be extremely different under all scenarios of warming.