Need to act together to address climate change, says Finnish President

Climate change is a global problem, but many of the solutions are going to be local, Finland President Alexander Stubb said in Mumbai on Saturday (March 7, 2026), emphasising the need for collective action to address the issue.

He was speaking to college students at the University of Mumbai campus after delivering an address on “Rebalancing the new world order: multilateral cooperation in the age of fragmentation”. “We need to set global standards and levels, and then try to invest in technologies so that there will be innovations to lead towards a more sustainable system. The truth is that our consumption of energy is not going to go down. So, the question is, how can we generate clean energy?” he said.