Vanhanen: Climate technology can help in downturn
Matti Vanhanen
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Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen (Centre) is proposing climate technology as a way to revitalise the economy. Speaking on a morning interview programme on YLE television, Vanhanen said that the EU climate package should be adhered to in spite of the financial crisis.
Vanhanen noted that in the recession of the 1990s Finland invested more in technological research, including mobile technology.
“It was a way to get out of the recession, and now a similar field with global growth involves questions linked with climate technology, renewable energy technology, energy conservation, and energy efficiency technology”, Vanhanen said.
The Prime Minister also underscored that measures taken in Europe will be a pivotal factor in fighting climate change.
Vanhanen returned on Thursday from a two-day European Union summit in Brussels, at which the crisis on international financial markets and the threat of climate change loomed large.
Several Eastern European member-states and Italy voiced concerns that straitened governments, suffering from the impact of bank bail-outs and worrying unemployment trends, would have to rein in ambitious EU plans to cut back on greenhouse gas emissions.
Helsingin Sanomat
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| 17.10.2008 - TODAY |
 Vanhanen: Climate technology can help in downturn |
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