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Finns are advised to eat more vegetables, whole grains and sustainably caught and farmed fish. At the same time, they should reduce their consumption of red meat, processed meat and foods rich in salt, fat or sugar. A change in diets would not only promote people’s individual health but also planetary health.

Jorma Jantunen, the Head of Authority Services at the Finnish Environment Institute, passed away on 23 December 2023, aged 66.

The Horizon Europe project OBSGESSION receives over 5 million euros funding and will commence from 2024. The OBSGESSION project, which advances monitoring of biodiversity change, is coordinated by the Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) and the funding for Syke’s part of the project is almost a million euros. Syke also received a total of 1.6 million euros of funding from the EU’s research and innovation programme Horizon Europe for five other projects in which Syke is a partner.