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More vegetables, more contact with nature, less food waste - new operating model for day-care centres

News 2019-12-5
Children like vegetables, fruit, and berries that they have grown and cooked themselves. Day-care centres can reduce their food wastage through long-term cooperation and planning. Interaction between children and nature can be enhanced by taking long excursions into the outdoors, by planting and nurturing plants, and by letting children play with natural materials, soil, and natural water. These results are confirmed by Nature step towards wellbeing (Luontoaskel hyvinvointiin), a project aimed at finding ways to support children's wellbeing and a sustainable operating culture at day-care centres in cooperation with teaching and catering staff.

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Events

Ecosystem Accounting Pilots in Finland Seminar 2019-12-12 at 12:00
Where we are in terms of measuring nature’s contributions to national wealth? What are the costs of depletion and degradation of ecosystems?
High Level Celebration Conference of the first EU wide ecosystem assessment 2019-12-13 at 8:30
We are pleased to invite you to the High Level Celebration Conference of the first EU wide ecosystem assessment organized under the Finnish Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

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POLICY BRIEF

Ecological compenstions are worth taking into use
In ecological compensation local damage caused by construction or industry is offset by improving biodiversity elsewhere.
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Assessment of the status of Finland’s waters

Status of lakes and rivers about the same as before, coastal waters have deteriorated

A new assessment of the ecological status1) of surface waters in Finland shows that 87% of the surface area of our lakes and 68% of our rivers are in good or very good condition. Eutrophication is still the most significant problem. There have been no major changes in the status of inland waters since 2013, except for some improvement in certain sites. The status of the Gulf of Finland has improved, but for the most part the status of coastal waters is not good. The risks associated with groundwater have not increased.

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