Finland put to the test of climate change (report)

Jouni and Marianne, reindeer herders on Lake Inari.

© François Porcheron / RFI

By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow

1 min

No country in the world cultivates the land in latitudes further north than Finland!

To attract attention, the city of Salla, the coldest in the country, ironically proposed its candidacy for the Summer Olympics in 2032. This country is suffering the full brunt of climate change, with an average temperature which warms twice as much. faster than the world average.

The Sami people, whose balance is based on family, nature and reindeer, live in the north, in Lapland.

He must adapt to these upheavals.

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