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The United Nations Agenda 2030 puts binding goals on countries for the promotion of sustainable well-being. However, research indicates that Finland cannot achieve these goals because our ecological s......
Plan4Blue brings together the key blue growth and maritime spatial planning actors from Estonia and Finland to identify pathways to sustainable use of the sea areas and resources. The collaborative pr...
The collaborative project of Finnish Environment Institute and Natural Resources Institute Finland during years 2018-2020 primarily targets at developing sustainable business models for actors in cir...
Local authorities have the possibility to join Finland's largest joint procurement of cars powered by electricity and natural gas. The goal of the joint procurement by the Finnish Environment Institut......
A high-level international panel of scientific experts will convene in Helsinki on 12 and 13 December. It will prepare assessments based on research data and draw up recommendations to achieve the goa......
Transition to a circular economy is seen as an essential condition to respond to the challenge of the sustainable use of natural resources in the future. The Transition Pathways To...
Latest meeting: Interim Stakeholder Conference in Tallinn 21–22 May 2019 The conference began with the work package leaders presenting the current status of different project ac...
Best practices in chemicals management in industry (Work Package 4) Leader of the work package is Institute for Ecology of Industrial areas (IETU). The work package consi...
Identification of target substances (Work Package 2) Leader of the work package is German Environmental Agency (UBA). This work package consists of two groups of activiti...
Policy improvement (Work Package 3) Leader of the work package is German Environmental Agency (UBA). The work package consists of two groups of activities: 3.1 A...
Emissions from municipalities in the Carbon Neutral Municipalities (HINKU) network declined by an average 29 percent in 2007 - 2015. The greatest decreases in emissions were in the municipality of Ii ......
© Riku Lumiaro / YHAn kuvapankki results Publications of the maritime spatial planning project Plan4Blue The objective of Work Package 2 of Plan4B......
© Feodor Gurvits results Publications of the maritime spatial planning project Plan4Blue The Blue Growth is high on the agenda of the EU, and there i......
Background In Koillismaa-region many lakes have been invaded by a harmful alien species Canadian waterweed ( Elodea canadensis ). In Finland, it has spread besides Koillismaa ...
© Vilma Hakala results Publications of the maritime spatial planning project Plan4Blue Work Package 4 of Plan4Blue organises a participatory process ......
© Tuula Palaste results Publications of the maritime spatial planning project Plan4Blue The maritime spatial planning (MSP) process requires diver......
The Finnish Environment Institute is participating in the Interreg project Baltic Blue Biotechnology Alliance ( Baltic Blue Biotechnology Alliance; ALLIANCE ) that gathers ...
The scientific article by Kirsi Mäkinen, Paula Kivimaa and Ville Helminen, “Path creation for urban mobility transitions - linking aspects of urban form to transport policy analysis” was published in ......
The UN sustainable development Agenda 2030 came into effect in 2016. At the heart of the Agenda 2030 are the 17 commonly agreed goals and 169 more detailed sub-goals. The aim of th...
The seminar "Sustainability experimentation: interplay between grassroots and institutions", opened by Professor Stephen Zavestoski, and followed by presentations on experiments from a range of angles......