The Government is to present its new energy and climate strategy to the Parliament in March, 2017. Finland would thereby become the first country in the world to resort to a statutory prohibition to stop the use of coal in energy production. Coal is a particularly emissions-intensive source of energy, and countries around the world are seeking to reduce its use in electricity production. Statutory prohibitions, however, have only been adopted at the regional level,…
Finland on its way to become world’s first country to ban coal use in energy production
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