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Unique municipal collaboration accelerates climate action

Almost all Danish municipalities and the country’s five regions have joined DK2020, a unique collaboration to develop local climate action plans and speed up adaptation and mitigation efforts across the country. Just across the Skagerrak strait,...

Nordic countries should take leadership to ensure a socially just green transition

The Finnish City of Lahti has gone from having the most polluted lake in the entire Nordic Region to becoming the European Green Capital 2021. Lahti’s Mayor, Pekka Timonen, says that ambitious targets and a culture of action have been critical to...

Sustainable change is about people and narratives

No matter if you are transforming a former industrial city into a European Green Capital, designing national climate policy to achieve carbon-neutrality, or working on social sustainability in rural communities, one thing is clear: Climate policies...

What will change when people can live where they want instead of where they work?

Remote work has skyrocketed during the pandemic, and there are clear indications that most of the Nordic workforce would like to continue working remotely to some degree. The first Nordregio Forum 2021 session discussed how this sudden shift would...

Still some structural obstacles to remote work

The Covid-19 pandemic and the rise in remote work has exposed some of the structural challenges of implementing more flexible work environments and better opportunities to work from a distance. As an example, the fact that people are spending more...

Nordic countries adapt to remote work and multilocality

The pandemic has changed the playing field when it comes to remote and flexible work, but what are the Nordic countries doing to understand better and promote the concept? Finland is currently conducting its most extensive study of multilocality to...