Policy area: Climate policy
How can Europe's Arctic regions contribute to the EU's green deal through industrial leadership and access to sustainable raw materials and batteries? This was the theme when the Swedish and Finnish trade associations for mines, minerals, and metal producers, Svemin and Finnmin, arranged a webinar about mineral extraction, battery production and recycling in partnership with the European Commission during EU Industry Week.
The 27 EU countries are committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, and the Nordic countries are leading the way. Norway aims to achieve climate neutrality by 2030, while Finland plans to reach net-zero emissions by 2035, Iceland in 2040 and Sweden by 2045. Denmark wants to be climate neutral by 2050, but with a reduction target of 70 percent by 2030.
The 26th of February, North Sweden European Office, together with Norrbotten Chamber of Commerce, the Bothnian Corridor and Buisiness Oulo, arranged the digital webinar “European core network corridors going global”, a webinar on the extension of the European core network corridor. The purpose of the webinar was to offer new knowledge about the European core network corridor from a Nordic perspective.
This year, the Arctic Futures Symposium was organized for the eleventh year in a row by the International Polar Foundation and its partners. The conference was held online and lasted for three days. Thomas Norvoll, next Chairman of Northern Sparsely Populated Areas (NSPA) between 2021-2023 and Chair of the Board at North Norway European Office, participated as a speaker on the third day.
On October 13, North Sweden organized a webinar with Elsi Katainen and Erik Bergkvist, Members of the European Parliament, together with OECD, the European Commission and Northern Sparsely Populated Areas (NSPA). The discussions focused on the NSPA's role for enabling a sustainable regional development in the European Arctic.
21 Oct 2020 EWRC webinar Circular economy in the Arctic industries
17 Sep 2020 State of the union – Northern Sweden a guiding example
15 Sep 2020 Northern Sweden puts forward the importance of a regional dimension on EU's forest strategy
30 Jun 2020 NSPA:s views on EU Cohesion Policy
11 Mar 2020 The European Commission proposes 61 million euros to Upper Norrland for the restructuring of the steel industry
15 Jan 2020 Northern Sweden’s minerals important for EU’s climate adaptation
18 Dec 2019 North Sweden gathered in force with big regional stakeholder meeting in Brussels
27 Nov 2019 Swedish forestry in focus during two seminars on November 22
18 Jun 2019 European premier of the OECD’s international meeting on mining in Skellefteå
07 Mar 2016 Position on Cascading
02 Dec 2015 Boliden - one of the world's largest mining and smelting companies
26 Nov 2015 North Sweden premiere a series of articles on Raw Materials in Northern Sweden
23 Mar 2015 NSPA has formally initiated the work with the OECD study
23 Oct 2014 Sustainable mining in Northern Sweden
06 Jul 2014 The Impact of Culture - Creative businesses for sustainable cities
