NEFCO and the Finnish company Salmela-Yhtiöt Oy have agreed to invest in the Latvian company Blue Circle SIA to start ecological fish farming near Riga in Latvia.
A new Swedish funding programme for the development of long-term sustainable district heating systems in Ukraine was announced today at the Nordic Green to Scale seminar.
The Finland Ukraine Trust Fund, which provides financial support to both private and public energy-related projects in Ukraine, has been launched and has received much interest in both countries.
A new international study, released today in Kiev, shows that scaling up proven Nordic climate solutions in Ukraine would reduce emissions significantly, helping the country meet its Paris Agreement commitments.
Important progress has been made to clean-up the Krasny Bor waste site due to good cooperation between Finland and Russia as well as by involving an international network under NEFCO’s coordination.
NEFCO and the Ministry of Finance of Georgia have today signed loan and E5P grant agreements aimed at financing energy-efficiency measures as well as introducing renewables and alternative sources of energy supply in public buildings in Georgia.
As the world witnesses an ever-increasing boom in wind and solar energy, one topic of conversation remains constant in the Nordics: “What should we do when it gets really cold in February and the wind doesn’t blow?”
NEFCO's Board of Directors will convene in Helsinki for its third meeting in 2018.
The Arctic Biodiversity Congress will be held in Rovaniemi in October and is arranged by the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), which is the biodiversity working group of the Arctic Council. NEFCO will co-chair a session on 11 October at 10:30 - 12:00 - Green financing, blue economy: Investments in Arctic biodiversity.
