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Open letter to EU: Resist Fossil-fuelled Imperialism

More than 120 NGOs – including Finnish Grandparents for Climate – around the world are demanding that EU leaders divest from US fossil fuels. The backdrop is Trump’s actions in Latin America and threats to take over Greenland. Is Trump […]

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We want to have the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

Finnish Grandparents for Climate has endorsed – a bold new idea for an international framework to phase out fossil fuels faster, fairly and forever. While oil, gas and coal are responsible for 86% of CO2 emissions in the past decade, […]

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Storytelling in Climate Communication

This spring, I took a course called Climate.comms.now at the Open University of the University of Helsinki, which dealt with climate communication. As my final thesis, I wrote, among other things, the essay Storytelling in Climate Communication. Below is a […]

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Protest against attempts to suppress legitimate, non-violent climate protests

The Finnish Climate Grandparents as a member of the European Grandparents strongly protest against all attempts across Europe to unduly suppress legitimate, non-violent climate protest and to intimidate climate activists. Climate change is not a private and subjective conviction but […]

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Finland’s famous climate target under threat – NGOs take the state to court

Finnish environmental and human rights organisations and Finnish Sámi Youth are taking Finland to court for its lack of adequate climate action. Finnish Grandparents for Climate is one member of this coalition. The organisations argue that the government’s inaction violates […]

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