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Municipal Climate Solutions Programme accelerated climate work in municipalities and regions More than 60% of Finns live in municipalities that aim for carbon neutrality or an emission reduction of at least 80% by 2030, five years before Finland’s...https://ym.fi/en/municipal-climate-solutions-programme
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During the Climate Conference COP29 Finland joined a number of new initiatives and boosted important initiatives launched earlier to promote clean solutions.https://ym.fi/en/-/finland-joined-several-initiatives-and-declarations-at-cop29-to-boost-climate-work
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10.4.2026 | Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme UNEP Inger Andersen will visit Finland on 13–14 April. Andersen will meet representatives of Finland and other Nordic countries to discuss ways to strengthen the UN’s work on environmental matters. Andersen will also meet Minister of Climate and the Environment Sari Multala and various stakeholders.https://ym.fi/en/-/unep-executive-director-visits-helsinki-to-discuss-ways-to-strengthen-un-work-on-environment-with-nordic-countries
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30.10.2025 | A working group of the Ministry of the Environment and Ministry of Defence has been appointed to explore how nature restoration and other ways to make use of natural barriers can support national defence and border security especially in eastern Finland.https://ym.fi/en/-/working-group-to-explore-ways-to-coordinate-nature-restoration-and-national-defence
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17.10.2023 | The Sámi Climate Council convened at its first meeting in Rovaniemi on 13 October. The mission of the Council is to bring the knowledge base and perspectives of the Sámi people into the climate policy processes.https://ym.fi/en/-/sami-climate-council-started-its-work
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24.9.2024 | The Government has set the target to promote voluntary carbon markets. The aim is to create long-term business opportunities related to carbon sequestration, which would also contribute to Finland’s efforts to reach the climate targets.https://ym.fi/en/-/minister-mykkanen-work-on-voluntary-carbon-markets-continues-finland-has-potential-related-to-technical-carbon-sequestration-solutions
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26.9.2024 | The Government’s aim is to create clean economic growth in Finland and replace pollution-generating solutions around the world through technology exports. The Government will boost the work on the positive climate handprint together with business and industry.https://ym.fi/en/-/minister-mykkanen-work-on-climate-handprint-a-significant-opportunity-for-finland-calculation-model-developed-together-with-business-and-industry
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14.3.2022 | The Government aims is to halve the number of homeless people during this Government term and to eradicate homelessness in the following years. Among the means used to eradicate homelessness is housing advice, and the Ministry of the Environment has launched a process to enact legislation on this.https://ym.fi/en/-/work-on-homelessness-intensified-by-improving-housing-advice-ministry-of-the-environment-launches-process-to-enact-legislation-on-advice
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28.4.2026 | The project of the Ilmari Räsänen Foundation produces offset areas that are ready to be brought to the nature values market by means of funding from the Kone Foundation.https://ym.fi/en/-/agent-s-role-in-nature-values-trading-based-on-honesty-and-skills
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13.4.2026 | According to the new report, Finnish companies are reducing their emissions globally by substituting for more polluting alternatives. At the publication event of the report on the positive carbon handprint, Minister of Climate and the Environment Sari Multala stressed that the export of clean solutions is both a climate action and a growth opportunity for Finland.https://ym.fi/en/-/carbon-handprint-of-finnish-exports-grew-to-22-million-tonnes-minister-multala-finland-is-reducing-emissions-fast-and-taking-clean-solutions-to-the-world-
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19.6.2023 | As part of the Ministry of the Environment's Sustainable City programme, twelve experiments on sustainable urban development were carried out between 2022 and 2023. They focused on inclusion, interaction and solutions that cut across dimensions of sustainability. The results included, among others, a local sustainable development agreement model, a digital portal for resource wisdom work that suppo...https://ym.fi/en/-/experiments-provided-cities-with-tools-for-more-interactive-sustainability-work
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30.4.2026 | The European countries participating in Santa Marta express their strong support for the Santa Marta First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels and appreciate the leadership as shown by Colombia and the Netherlands. Santa Marta establishes an action-oriented platform to scale up work and to elevate energy transition. This is critical for addressing the climate emergency.https://ym.fi/en/-/european-countries-support-the-santa-marta-first-conference-on-transitioning-away-from-fossil-fuels
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23.4.2026 | The evaluation of Finland’s National World Heritage Strategy (2015–2025) finds that implementation has been broad‑based and substantive. The strategy has reinforced Finland’s standing as a responsible steward of world heritage and deepened cooperation between world heritage sites. The findings and the role of the strategy were discussed at the World Heritage Forum in Vaasa.https://ym.fi/en/-/1410845/evaluation-of-national-world-heritage-strategy-successful-implementation-impact-needs-to-grow
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1.4.2026 | The nature values market supports the work to promote nature management in forests and offers an alternative way to seek funding that used to be mainly based on central government sources. In North Karelia, nature values trading is piloted in a few mire restoration sites.https://ym.fi/en/-/nature-values-trading-in-north-karelia-to-restore-biodiversity-of-mires
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In 2025, the city of Vantaa implemented its first ecological compensation as part of the zoning project concerning the Finnish Immigration Service’s detention unit in Itä-Hakkila.https://ym.fi/en/-/vantaa-believes-in-nature-positive-land-use
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17.3.2023 | The measures to reduce emissions have progressed as planned, but the trend in carbon sinks jeopardises the achievement of carbon neutrality by 2035.https://ym.fi/en/-/ministerial-working-group-on-climate-and-energy-policy-sums-up-climate-work-during-this-government-term
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9.4.2026 | The transaction concerning nature values agreed between a private landowner and the retail and service company Pohjois-Karjalan Osuuskauppa is among the first ones in Finland. The surface area of the site concerned, the Kuikkasuo mire, is about 12 hectares, and it will be restored to a state that is as close to natural as possible.https://ym.fi/en/-/nature-wins-the-most-in-nature-values-trading-but-all-parties-stand-to-benefit
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21.11.2022 | With respect to agriculture, the aim at the Climate Change Conference COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt was to complete the work under the Koronivia Joint Work in Agriculture launched in 2017 and to agree on the future of climate work on agriculture under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.https://ym.fi/en/-/1410837/decision-on-climate-work-on-agriculture-at-climate-change-conference
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15.1.2024 | The mid-term evaluation of the Green Deal on emission-free work sites shows that almost all of the interim targets of the agreement have been reached. Electrification of machinery is a key tool to completely phase out fossil fuels.https://ym.fi/en/-/green-deal-agreement-on-emission-free-work-sites-has-boosted-efforts-to-phase-out-fossil-fuels
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17.4.2026 | The pilot project on nature values trading will restore a mire of about 12 hectares in Pielavesi, North Savo. The mire is a barren area with poor tree growth that was drained in the 1960s. In the restoration project, ditches will be blocked and trees removed.https://ym.fi/en/-/finsilva-is-selling-and-s-group-is-buying-nature-values-in-pielavesi