Issues affecting circumpolar nations
Human Rights Watch criticizes ‘inadequate’ government response to issue, calls for stronger climate targets The federal government is not doing
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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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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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For the first time, comparable data ranks greenhouse gas emissions for all Finnish municipalities. According to figures released by the
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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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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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With 2019 being the year when ‘Flight shame’ was introduced as a social movement aimed at boycotting air travel to
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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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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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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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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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A Yukon, northwestern Canada government draft strategy released Thursday to deal with what it labels a “climate change emergency” suggests
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Lapland (Arctic Finland) tourism players are divided over a proposal to mitigate carbon emissions by introducing a flight tax. On
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Is flying too cheap? That’s what one group of activists argues as they campaign for Finland to introduce a tax
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A group of corporations and other organisations has just handed over a list of political proposals they want carried out
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