Medium-Term Climate Plan

The Medium-Term Climate 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, part of the emissions from 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 National Energy and Climate Strategy covers the emissions trading, effort sharing and land use sectors.

The Government approved the third Medium-Term Climate Plan in December 2025

In December 2025, the Government gave to Parliament the most recent Report on the Medium-Term Climate Plan. The plan was drawn up side by side with the National Energy and Climate Strategy. Together with the Climate Plan for the Land Use Sector, these three plans cover all emissions in Finland and the measures to reduce them.

•    Medium-Term Climate Plan 2025 | Institutional Repository for the Government Valto (in Finnish, abstract in English)
•    Medium-term Climate Change Policy Plan 2022 | Institutional Repository for the Government Valto

The preparation of the latest climate plan began in March 2024, and the process included citizens’ consultations and stakeholder events. In the very beginning of the process, the Ministry of the Environment organised an open kick-off event and a workshop where different stakeholders could voice their views to support the preparation. 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 were used in the work. In addition, the Ministry of the Environment organised two events with the Sámi Parliament to discuss the measures envisaged to be included in the climate plan.

•    Press release, 4 December 2025: Further boost to emission reductions – Government approved Medium-Term Climate Plan
•    News item, 17 September 2025: Summary of opinions on the Medium-Term Climate Plan published (in Finnish)
•    Press release, 2 July 2025: Medium-Term Climate Plan circulated for comments
•    Press release, 25 March 2024:Finnish Government launches preparation of energy and climate strategy and medium-term climate plan (in Finnish and Swedish)