Erik Solheim, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme, visits Finland
Ministry of the Environment
Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Erik Solheim, the Norwegian Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), visits Finland on Wednesday 3 May, on invitation of the Minister of Agriculture and the Environment Kimmo Tiilikainen.
Besides Minister Tiilikainen, Solheim meets the Minister for Foreign Affairs Timo Soini, Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Kai Mykkänen, Member of Parliament Pekka Haavisto, and members of the Environment Committee of the Finnish Parliament. At the Confederation of Finnish Industries Solheim meets directors of Finnish cleantech companies to discuss how the companies could have better access to the UN environment projects and to the sustainable development markets opened through these.
On the agenda at the ministerial meetings are the Arctic issues, closer cooperation between the Finnish and UN environment programmes especially in the private sector, and the objectives of the 3rd Meeting of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-3) in Nairobi in December 2017.
Erik Solheim has been the Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme since May 2016. In 2005–2007 he was the Minister of International Development and in 2007–2012 he served as the Minister responsible for development cooperation and environmental affairs.
Inquiries:
Tuulia Toikka, Ministerial Adviser, Ministry of the Environment, tel. +358 295 250 297, [email protected]
Marjaana Kokkonen, Desk Officer, UN environmental policy, tel. +358 295 350 567, [email protected]