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a mutual challenge
Resource wisdom –a mutual challenge
Global warming is a challenge facing the entire world. Solving it requires new innovations to come in at an accelerated pace. Circular economic thinking utilizes all opportunities that can be developed for countering climate change. Instead of solving an individual problem, circular economy looks for comprehensive benefits by developing resource-wise solutions. In early 2020, The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra published its Megatrends 2020 report, which challenges our ability to train and support young people for the upcoming world.
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Finland has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2035. This means that the country's emissions should be equal to its carbon sink. Emissions mean greenhouse gas emissions that are created as a result of using fossil fuels, industrial processes and biological processes altered by human activities. Carbon sink, on the other hand, refers to actions that bind greenhouse gas emissions away from the atmosphere, increasing carbon storages in the process.
Source: hiilineutraalisuomi.fi The most important factor affecting the future is the urgency of ecological reconstruction: how to counter climate change, the diminishing of biodiversity, the variable availability of resources and the waste problem.”
- Sitra megatrends report 2020
