Global Gender Gap Report 2024
<p>The Global Gender Gap Index annually benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions (Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and
Finland
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Russia and Finland at loggerheads over timber taxation
Finland is counting on the European Commission to use Russia
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According to Reports
Sinking with biofuel: A study by the Finnish Environment Institute found that increased logging could eliminate Europe
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Huge gap in world cancer survival
Cancer survival rate varies widely between countries, according to a worldwide study of the cancers of the breast (women), colon, rectum and prostate. The five-year survival rate for prostate cancer is the highest in the United States as compared to any of the 31 countries studied as part of the study published in Lancet Oncology. However, in the US, cancer survival in black men and women is systematically and substantially lower than in white men and women.
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Finland reprimanded over peat power
The International Energy Agency, an organization that monitors the energy market of industrialized countries, has reprimanded Finland for subsidizing the electricity generated from peat-fired power
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Vulcan to proceed with mine in Finland
Junior miner Vulcan Resources Ltd has approved the initial development of its 800,000 tonnes per annum Kylylahti copper-cobalt-nickel mine and concentrator in eastern Finland. The Perth-headquartered company's definitive feasibility study (DFS) has confirmed the economic and technical viability of the $US170 million ($A184.5 million) project, which is estimated to have a life of mine pre-tax cash flow of $US618 million ($A670.84 million). Chairman Barry Eldridge said he was delighted with the outcome of the DFS, given the global escalation in costs.
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Only carbon tax won't do
Evanston, Illinois: Everyone seems to be talking about a carbon tax.
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Mobile phone radiation might alter protein expression in human skin
Earlier we have shown that the mobile phone radiation (radiofrequency modulated electromagnetic fields; RF-EMF) alters protein expression in human endothelial cell line. This does not mean that similar
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Illegal logging: law enforcement, livelihoods and the timber trade
Illegal logging is massively widespread - more than 50 per cent of all timber in some countries - and hugely damaging, yet how can it be tackled without causing poverty in local communities?
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Just talk, no promises at Asia Europe meet
leaders from 25 European and 13 Asian nations have adopted a declaration to fight global warming, among other things, at the sixth Asia-Europe Meeting Summit held at Helsinki on September 10-11,
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Sami relief
How many people does it take to get a government logging company to lay off 27,000 hectares? In Europe, three. For that is the number of Finnish herders who complained to the un Human Rights