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AI tool developed for polar shipping to help vessels reduce emissions

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, November 24, 2022 at 14:10 — Last Updated: Thursday, November 24, 2022 at 15:39
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An AI polar navigation tool has been developed by the British Antarctic Survey with a view to reducing emissions and

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Finnish Defence Forces to use biofuels on land, at sea

Yle News
Posted: Friday, November 18, 2022 at 15:50
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Solar panels have also been installed on Defence Forces facilities all the way up into Lapland, where one building at

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Climate crisis tops agenda as parliamentarians meet ahead of Arctic Council ministerial

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 09:26
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They were supposed to meet in Tromsø, northern Norway, but for pandemic reasons, the conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic

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Cold weather perfect to pioneer electric aviation says Finnair

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at 14:35
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The Swedish-developed 19-seater ES-19 electric aircraft for short-haul routes could be ready for take-off with passengers by 2026. With zero-emissions,

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Climate change driving food insecurity in First Nations communities while Canada stands by, report says

Ryan Patrick Jones, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, October 22, 2020 at 16:32
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Human Rights Watch criticizes ‘inadequate’ government response to issue, calls for stronger climate targets The federal government is not doing

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Swedish MEP ‘extremely happy’ with EU vote to cut emissions by 60 percent

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, October 8, 2020 at 15:08 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 8, 2020 at 15:12
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The European Parliament voted on Wednesday to cut Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions by 60 percent in the next decade, a decision hailed

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland 

Finland’s highest vehicle emissions down south, oldest cars up north

Yle News
Posted: Monday, March 2, 2020 at 12:36
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Finland’s car population continues to age, even as government considers ways to get motorists to switch to newer, more fuel-efficient or electric

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General 

Finnish Lapland municipality estimated to have lowered emissions by 121 percent

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 09:44 — Last Updated: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 09:48
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For the first time, comparable data ranks greenhouse gas emissions for all Finnish municipalities. According to figures released by the

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Environment Environment (Norway) Norway 

Battery-powered tour buses come to Arctic Norway

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 at 11:18
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The travel industry goes green and the north is no exception when tour-busses aims for zero emission. It is the

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland 

Finland far behind climate goals, think tank says

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 12:25
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Finland’s carbon emissions are dropping far too slowly to reach the country’s climate goals, according to a fresh report from the Research

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Business Business (Norway) Norway 

No take off for flight-shaming in northern Norway, but northern Sweden sees fall in air passengers

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, January 13, 2020 at 12:29
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With 2019 being the year when ‘Flight shame’ was introduced as a social movement aimed at boycotting air travel to

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland 

Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin stresses climate action in New Year message

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, December 31, 2019 at 09:26 — Last Updated: Tuesday, December 31, 2019 at 09:27
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Marin said that society’s strength can’t be measured by the wealth of its most affluent members. In her Prime Minister’s

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Finnish climate panel: Electric cars cheaper in the long run

Yle News
Posted: Friday, December 13, 2019 at 10:23
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The Finnish Climate Change Panel estimates that electric cars emit 60-70 percent lower lifetime emissions than standard cars with combustion

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Environment Environment (Sweden) Sweden 

‘This is positive’: global carbon emissions set to grow slowly in 2019

David Russell, Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at 12:32
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Global carbon emissions rose only 0.6 percent in 2019 due to a decline in the worldwide use of coal, according

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General 

Earth set to warm 3.2 C by 2100 unless efforts to cut emissions are tripled: UN report

Nicole Mortillaro, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 at 09:44
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Without drastic action, our planet is headed toward warming of 3.2 C in less than 100 years, according to a

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