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• Baltic Sea protection is strengthened by urban cooperation of coastal cities 2024-05-22
  The protection of the Baltic Sea marine environment was enhanced through the BALTICITIES project. The project strengthened environmental networks within and between coastal cities in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. In addition to municipal and city officials, marine knowledge was widely shared with various societal actors and the public. Through the Baltic Seashore Stories Video Campaign, the diversity of different coastal areas was introduced to the public. The overwhelming popularity of the Campaign’s website indicates that many people share both joy and concern for the sea.
• Municipal climate emissions down 36 per cent from peak years of 2000s 2024-05-16
  According to the Finnish Environment Institute, the combined greenhouse gas emissions of municipalities in 2022 continued to decline. Since the peak year of 2006, emissions fell by 36 per cent.
• Music video brings digital nature data to life 2024-05-10
  Today, on 10 May, the Nature Talks To Us piece by Tapani and Joona Toivanen, which combines music, video art, and modern digital methods of collected nature information, has been published. The nature data used in the work was collected in the Finnish Ecosystem Observatory project. In the era of the eco-crisis, art and art-based research methods are also used at the Finnish Environment Institute (Syke). Art allows us to access those areas of humanity on which the sustainability transition is based: culture, values, and emotions.
• Policy Brief: Reducing use of natural resources can be coupled with strengthening the economy 2024-05-07
  The Finnish economy can grow even if the raw material consumption is reduced. At the same time, climate change and biodiversity loss will be mitigated, and pollution reduced. Finland should transition to a circular economy, as it reduces the use of natural resources and promotes crisis resilience. The new Policy Brief published by the Finnish Environment Institute explains how decoupling raw material consumption and economic growth is possible and what the transition to a carbon-neutral circular economy society requires.
• Policy Brief: Stopping biodiversity loss makes sense 2024-05-07
  Biodiversity loss caused by human action results in nature becoming degraded and uniform. The more living beings disappear – ultimately causing extinction of species – the greater changes the functioning of ecosystems will undergo. The new Policy Brief by the Finnish Environment Institute describes how, at its most serious, biodiversity loss threatens food production and other ecosystem services that are important for humans. The publication also presents methods for combating biodiversity loss.