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The Forty-Fourth Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM XLIV) is to be held in Berlin, Germany between 23 May and 2 June 2022. The Berlin ATCM will be significant for two reasons. Firstly, ATCM XLIV follows significant disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020 ATCM was not held, and the 2021 meeting (ATCM XXLIII) held in Paris, France was wholly online. ATCM XLIV will be the first international Antarctic meeting to engage a hybrid format with the resumption of limited, but still significant, face-to-face attendance. Secondly, ATCM XLIV is being held while two consultative parties, Russia and Ukraine, are engaged in armed conflict. More broadly, it is also the first international meeting with both Russia and Ukraine involved since the conflict began.