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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11733

25 February 2017
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NEWS BRIEFS / Climate
Finland says it will be carbon-neutral by 2045

24/02/2017 (Agence Europe)Finland has announced that it will achieve carbon-neutrality by 2045, although article four of the Paris Climate Agreement stipulates that global greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sinks must balance each other out during the second half of the century.  Finnish environment minister Kimmo Tiilikainen said: ‘In Finland this balance can be reached sooner, in 2045 at the latest. This is when our forests could sequester all the fossil emissions generated in...

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