Finland announces move to ban coal one year earlier than planned
As climate change threatens the world, multiple nations are rushing to switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources that will reduce humanity’s carbon footprint. In fact, we have ten years to dramatically change the way we generate energy in an effort to stave off looming catastrophe.
Along with several other European countries, Finland passed a plan in 2016 requiring the phase-out of coal. Nearly three years later, the Nordic country has announced that all of the work has paid off as the phase-out is now scheduled to be completed a year sooner in 2029, and legislation has been passed to back up the target date.