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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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Business Business (Finland) Finland 

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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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General 

Canada’s Yukon territory aims for 30% greenhouse gas reduction by 2030

Steve Silva, CBC News
Posted: Friday, November 15, 2019 at 10:04 — Last Updated: Monday, November 18, 2019 at 11:53
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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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Business Business (Finland) Finland General 

Northern Finland’s tourism industry divided over flight tax proposal

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 10:18 — Last Updated: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 14:46
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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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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General 

Should Finland adopt a flight tax to reduce emissions?

Egan Richardson, Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 09:44 — Last Updated: Friday, November 1, 2019 at 08:44
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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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Environment Environment (Sweden) General Sweden 

Swedish industry group asks government’s help in shifting away from fossil fuels

Annika Digréus, Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, October 28, 2019 at 12:05 — Last Updated: Monday, May 25, 2020 at 15:23
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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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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General 

Finnish residents among world’s worst CO2 emitters by air travel, stats show

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 14:02 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 15:23
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People resident in Finland cause more carbon dioxide emissions by flying than those resident in any other country in the world except

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Canada General Science Science (Canada) 

Glacier-fed rivers in Arctic Canada sucking carbon dioxide out of the air: study

Emily Blake, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, September 3, 2019 at 16:31
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New research suggests glacier-fed rivers in Canada’s North are sucking up and storing a lot of carbon dioxide from the

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Environment Environment (Russia) General Russia 

Can the environment withstand Arctic Russia’s coal mining boom?

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, August 23, 2019 at 14:12 — Last Updated: Monday, August 26, 2019 at 10:40
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Climate crisis and environmental concern notwithstanding, Russia says it aims for a big dig of the carbon-rich rock. Much of

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Environment Environment (Russia) General Russia 

Norilsk, Arctic Russia is world’s largest sulfur dioxide emissions hotspot: report

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 at 10:19
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1.9 million tons of sulfur dioxide from the chimneys in Norilsk, a city in Arctic Russia, were blowing over the

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