
Iceland, Katrin Jakobsdottir, prime minister of Iceland Ads by Kiosked
Since forming its governing coalition, Jakobsdottir’s Left-Green party has already taken bold steps to assert its environmentalism. Rather than appointing a party member of parliament, the Left-Greens have picked Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson, environmental activist and CEO of Landvernd, the largest nature conservation and environmental NGO in Iceland, to serve as Minister of the Environment. The government’s new coalition is expected to continue the work to address climate change began under previous administrations.
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While climate change has proven to be somewhat of a boost for Iceland’s tourism industry, which welcomed approximately 2.2 million visitors in 2017, the nation of just over 300,000 recognizes the importance of shifting to a clean energy economy and preparing for disruptive changes in the coming decades. Iceland’s climate change action plan involves shifting to clean energy in transportation by improving infrastructure for electric cars, planting more trees, and sourcing all energy for public institutions from renewable sources.
Via The New York Times
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2 comments:
“She is the party leader who can best unite voters from the left and right,”
Unity of left and right as a pragmatic arrangement when nothing else will work is OK, but it should never be a final goal.
It's death to the right, and the establishment of world socialism, that will give us enjoyable
lives.
Death to the right? Heil!!!
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