Government Operations committee  If I continue from Finland's perspective, and if I consider this in terms of the “effort sharing sector,” as we say in the EU, in Finland 40% of CO2 emissions in this sector come from housing. We are a northern country and must warm our houses. That's the reason the percentage is

Government Operations committee  I can continue that we have quite new legislation related to public procurement. In Finland, public procurement is a question about what the government and state authorities are doing, but also what local municipalities are doing. As to what my French colleagues told you about so

Government Operations committee  I have only one example from Finland. The EU Commission and member states all adopted this 2020 target of how much we would cut CO2 emissions. At that time, a few years ago, we got a group of local municipalities and cities together and stated that we would take more ambitious ta

Government Operations committee  Thank you for having this plastic issue in this discussion because this is a huge problem. In Finland we are very glad that this plastic matter is now on the United Nations' agenda and also on the EU's agenda. Just lately we adopted our own plastic strategy in Finland. We made it

Government Operations committee  Thank you. I am delighted to appear. Hello, Canada. It's a great pleasure to see you all on the other side of the video. It's a very interesting time to give a presentation from Finland to you, because a couple of weeks ago our Prime Minister and government resigned and we will