Energy Policy
Jyrki Katainen was a member in the team to define energy strategy and climate policy of Finland in 2008 with Mauri Pekkarinen, Sirkka-Liisa Anttila, Tarja Cronberg, Jyri Häkämies, Paula Lehtomäki, Jan Vapaavuori and Stefan Wallin. According to this plan Jyrki Katainen supported from 2005 to 2020 the following increases: primary energy use + 13 %, industry and construction electricity use +26.7 % and total electricity use +15.4 %. Greenpeace Nordic criticized the climate strategy for not to discuss the carbon dioxide emissions. Greenpeace calculated that the government target was 4 % emission decline from 1990 level to year 2020. This calculation assumes that Olkiluoto under construction nuclear plant would be in use as planned which would count annually 2,6-5 Mt CO2. Greenpeace calculated from the report the energy use emissions as 69 Mt CO2 in 2005 and target as 67,9 Mt CO2 in 2020. Coal and peat relates emissions were in 19.8 CO2 in 2005 and 23.3 CO2 in 2020. Oil related climate gas emissions declined 17 % and gas 5 % from 2005 to 2020. Oil related climate gas emissions were 22.4 CO2 in 2020.
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