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Budget session of Prime Minister Orpo's Government: Returning Finland to a sustainable growth track
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19.9.2023 21.19
Minister Mykkänen: Excellent opportunities for Finland to become major player in clean energy
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7.9.2023 10.00
Government appointed Sámi Climate Council
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24.8.2023 14.09
Ministry of the Environment awarded EUR 1.3 million in grants for studies and land use planning to promote green transition investment projects
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31.7.2023 12.46
Annual Climate Report: Additional measures are needed to achieve climate targets
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14.7.2023 9.57
Six state secretaries appointed to Orpo’s Government
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29.6.2023 14.35
Experiments provided cities with tools for more interactive sustainability work
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19.6.2023 10.51
OECD policy paper assesses the state of wellbeing in Finland
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9.6.2023 11.10
A new playbook gives companies information on how to accelerate the circular economy
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11.5.2023 9.05
Green deal scenarios envisage a new circular economy for Finland
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8.5.2023 16.30
Finland shows the way in carbon sequestration and soil research – topical themes in EU
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27.4.2023 13.45
Members sought for Sámi Climate Council
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21.4.2023 8.37
Finland to donate wastewater treatment equipment to Ukraine
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22.3.2023 9.30
IPCC report: Decisions made now have impacts for thousands of years – climate change challenges can be met with swift and extensive action
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20.3.2023 15.02
General government finances must be adapted and reformed in way that helps find solutions to climate crisis and biodiversity loss
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17.3.2023 12.40
Ministerial Working Group on Climate and Energy Policy sums up climate work during this government term
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17.3.2023 9.00
Finland supports Ukraine in assessment and documentation of environmental damages and in rebuilding
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10.3.2023 19.00
Government adopts Decree on Sámi Climate Council
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9.3.2023 13.28
Forest sector roundtable convened to discuss ways to strengthen carbon sinks
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2.3.2023 15.37
Parliament adopted acts that will reduce emissions from building and promote digitalisation
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1.3.2023 14.37
Forest sector roundtable seeks solutions to strengthen carbon sinks
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1.3.2023 13.22
Climate Barometer 2023: The majority of Finns see climate solutions as an opportunity to improve competitiveness and wellbeing
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27.2.2023 6.29
Climate Policy Roundtable’s message to the next Government: Finland must stick to its climate neutrality target
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21.2.2023 16.31
Youth participation in decision-making on climate and nature to be strengthened by new young people’s climate change and nature group
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20.2.2023 12.21
Climate Policy Roundtable convened for last time for now – messages to next Government on agenda
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20.2.2023 11.24
Threat and opportunity - cultural environments in changing climate
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13.2.2023 7.48
Report: Homelessness can be eradicated by 2027 with close cooperation
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10.2.2023 9.01
Voluntary forest protection popular among forest owners – record funding for fixed-term environmental forestry subsidy agreements
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7.2.2023 14.08
Guidelines for priority treatment of green transition projects completed
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6.2.2023 12.35
Real estate and construction innovations help solve climate crisis – EUR 12 million in development funding available in spring
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2.2.2023 10.29
New guide outlines good practices for voluntary carbon market
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1.2.2023 9.44
Minister of Environment and Climate Change of Somalia Khadija Mohamed Almakhzoumi to visit Finland
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31.1.2023 8.24
Annual payments of state-subsidised loans not raised in 2023 - aim to ease cost pressures related to housing
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26.1.2023 13.50
Better information to be available on water quality and consumption
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18.1.2023 10.01
UN Biodiversity Conference reached agreement on halting biodiversity loss by 2030 – 30 per cent protection and restoration goal for world’s nations
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19.12.2022 11.47
Speech of Minister Maria Ohisalo at the Convention on Biological Diversity, 15th Conference of the Parties, High Level Segment in Montreal, 16.12.2022
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16.12.2022 17.28
Cities solve sustainability challenges related to urban green spaces, urban planning and wellbeing
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13.12.2022 11.42
Climate Policy Roundtable: Upholding climate targets key issue in terms of justice
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8.12.2022 15.58
Climate Policy Roundtable to discuss climate justice in policy preparation
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7.12.2022 11.06
UN Biodiversity Conference starts in Montreal – turning point needed to halt nature loss
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2.12.2022 8.58
Speech of Minister Maria Ohisalo at the Into the Woods event 24.11.2022
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24.11.2022 12.12
Decision on climate work on agriculture at Climate Change Conference
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21.11.2022 13.45
Into the Woods: High-level decision-makers to discuss role of forests in building good living environments
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15.11.2022 15.43
UN Climate Change Conference starts in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt next weekend – aim to boost implementation of Paris Agreement
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3.11.2022 13.50
Annual Climate Report 2022: Total emissions about same as before, land use sector turned from sink into source of emissions
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27.10.2022 14.44
Government proposal: Municipalities obliged to draw up climate plans in future
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20.10.2022 13.46
EUR 3 million in grants available for projects that promote green transition in built environment
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17.10.2022 12.01
Homelessness has decreased but not enough – study to explore means to tackle this
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13.10.2022 10.16
Low-carbon construction materials, smarter construction and tools to municipalities and regions for climate change adaptation - 46 projects to boost green transition in built environment
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7.10.2022 12.18
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