Medium-term Climate Policy Plan
The Medium-term Climate Policy Plan is based on the Climate Act. The plan is drawn up once during each electoral term. It includes an action programme to reduce emissions in the non-emissions trading sectors, i.e. the effort sharing sector.
The effort sharing sector comprises emissions from transport, agriculture, building-specific heating, non-road mobile machinery and waste treatment and incineration, and F-gas emissions.
The implementation of the plan is monitored through the Annual Climate Reports to Parliament. The planning system under the Climate Act is implemented side by side with the process to prepare the National Energy and Climate Strategy. The strategy covers the emissions trading, effort sharing and land use sectors.
The preparation of the next Medium-term Climate Policy Plan started in March 2024. The plan will be drawn up side by side with the National Energy and Climate Strategy. The preparation process has included public consultations and stakeholder events. The Ministry of the Environment started off the preparation of the plan by organising an open launch event and a workshop where stakeholders could voice their views to support the plan’s preparation. The preparation has made use of the results of the 2025 Climate Barometer, the citizens’ assembly of the FLAIRE project, the citizen survey for the KEITO project and the views and results of the Youth Environment and Climate Summit. In addition, the Ministry of the Environment organised two hearings with the Sámi Parliament to discuss the preliminary measures of the climate policy plan
- Press release 25 March 2024: Finnish Government launches preparation of energy and climate strategy and medium-term climate policy plan (in Finnish and Swedish only)
The Government submitted the previous Medium-term Climate Policy Plan as report to Parliament on 2 June 2022. The preparation of the plan was coordinated with the processes to prepare the Climate and Energy Strategy and the Climate Plan for the Land Use Sector. Together, they cover all emissions in Finland and the measures to reduce them.
More information
Magnus Cederlöf, Senior Ministerial Adviser
Ministry of the Environment, Department of Climate and Environmental Protection, Climate and Chemicals Telephone:0295250060 Email Address: [email protected]