Businesses encourage climate negotiators to increase ambition

The UN climate conference (COP 24) begins in Katowice, Poland on Monday 4 December. Nordic businesses call for stricter goals and greater ambition from the negotiating parties. – Climate change mitigation creates significant business opportunities, because the...

Support for the Nordic climate proposal doubles

Nordic businesses and cities have called on the EU and its Member States to align with the Paris Agreement by setting and agreeing new, ambitious climate targets. The signatories of the proposal urged EU leaders to: Set a target for achieving net-zero emissions at the...

White snow, clean air – the campaign to reduce black carbon

The Arctic is warming at twice the global average rate, and it is estimated that 20-25% of Arctic warming is caused by black carbon, which is fine soot dust. Black carbon particles warm the atmosphere and when they land on the surface of snow and ice, they absorb...

Sport event to focus on mitigating climate change

On 2 November, 2018, the Climate Leadership Coalition and Sport and Sustainability International (SandSI) hosted an event in Helsinki to report on and support the work that the global sports industry and affiliated businesses are implementing to address the urgent...