Finland's election topics: Climate change, welfare, aging

  • 📰 ABC
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 37 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 18%
  • Publisher: 51%

Energy Energy Headlines News

Energy Energy Latest News,Energy Energy Headlines

In South Sudan, midwives bring down deaths despite the odds.

Different parties campaigning for parliamentary elections on the Narinkkatori Square in Helsinki, Finland, on Friday, April 12, 2019. The election day of the Finnish parliamentary elections is on Sunday, April 14, 2019. Finns will be voting Sunday to fill the country's 200-seat Eduskunta parliament after a campaign that saw debates over the country's generous welfare model, its rapidly aging population and how far to go to fight climate change.Some 4.

Finland is boosting its nuclear energy production by launching a new plant next year and lawmakers last month voted to completely phase out burning coal by 2029. Many parties back actions to fight global warming, include boosting the number of electric vehicles, cutting meat consumption through taxes or switching to more vegetarian food in public places like schools.

There are some divisions over proposed reforms, which are getting more urgent since the country's population of 5.5 million is rapidly aging. One plan aims to improve efficiency and reduce public spending by offering Finnish municipalities more freedom to choose between public and private providers for social needs and health care.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

Of course! Women relate to the symptoms and complications of childbirths!

Props to the midwives!!! May your families be blessed!!! May Sudan have better political leadership since Al Bashir is gone!!!

Send all democrats there.

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 471. in ENERGY

Energy Energy Latest News, Energy Energy Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Australia sets May 18 election with campaign expected on taxes, climate changeAustralians go to the polls in a general election on May 18, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said. Australia sets May 18 eating contest with campaign expected on taxes, climate change
Source: CNBC - 🏆 12. / 72 Read more »

Coachella Valley smog has gotten worse, and climate change could be to blameAir quality officials will miss a 2019 federal deadline to clean smog in the Coachella Valley, saying the challenges of “hotter summer weather and the threat of climate change” are hampering efforts to slash health-damaging ozone. MakeSmogGreatAgain No great loss, most of the bungholes that live there are trumplicons. lol yep it must be climate change, and not the wildfires causing smokey smog. The entire Los Angeles Basin, including the desert, was called 'The Valley of Smoke' by the Natives long before any cities/fwys/oil drilling etc were there....because of FIRES.
Source: latimes - 🏆 11. / 82 Read more »

Climate change must be our No. 1 priorityJay Inslee writes that, if elected, he will be the president who fights climate change, just like he has fought it as governor of Washington state JayInslee Opinion Yes. JayInslee Opinion Finally 👏🏼 JayInslee Opinion Lol
Source: CNN - 🏆 4. / 95 Read more »

Can the novel handle a subject as cataclysmic as climate change?The genre that Cormac McCarthy helped to galvanise with “The Road”, sometimes known as “cli-fi”, is gathering pace I cannot remember a book and a movie that made a greater impression on me - simply because it made sense as a logical consequence of what humanity is doing and how we are thinking. I will say this - if we don't change direction (I doubt we will), we'll end up where we are going. A profound futurist book that helped galvanise my thoughts on the importance of future thinking on climate change
Source: TheEconomist - 🏆 6. / 92 Read more »