Finland’s Nordic Ministerial Council Chairmanship To Prioritize Sustainability


Finland's Nordic Ministerial Council Chairmanship To Prioritize Sustainability

The Finnish chairmanship in the Nordic Council of Ministers will be focused on promoting the regional agenda of transformation into the world’s most sustainable and integrated region by 2030, Finland’s government said on Friday

HELSINKI (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – 08th January, 2021) The Finnish chairmanship in the Nordic Council of Ministers will be focused on promoting the regional agenda of transformation into the world’s most sustainable and integrated region by 2030, Finland’s government said on Friday.

Finland assumed the one-year rotational chairmanship in the council on January 1.

“The main goal of the Finnish chairmanship is to promote Generation 2030, a program adopted by Nordic ministers to make Nordic countries the world’s most sustainable and integrated region by 2030,” the government said in a press release.

Among all of the program’s initiatives, Helsinki said it would focus on those tackling circular economy and cross-border digitization.