Tag: Biodiversity loss
Empowering young people: Ashoka Nordic shares two young change-makers in Finland with social impact initiatives
First Prize Winner, Panashe Kauhanen, is the founder of the FASHCENE brand, which focuses on producing contemporary and modern fashion shows to promote the inclusion of Finnish youth. The brand’s goal is to create a platform where young people can showcase their talents in a safe and welcoming environment. The team behind the brand consists […]
HS: 51% of Finns are ready to adapt their standard of living to the climate
The results are not particularly surprising, in retrospect Pekka Jokinenprofessor of environmental policy at the University of Tampere. “Climate awareness is constantly increasing and penetrating society more thoroughly than, for example, five years ago,” he told the newspaper, referring to the emergence of climate political debate in all sectors of society – including the economy. […]
Effective protected areas needed to prevent biodiversity loss: A review
However, a new study that collected nearly a million records of more than 1,230 invertebrate species between 1990 and 2018 suggests that these protected areas are just as vulnerable to the country’s overall decline in biodiversity. The authors found that protected areas were more species-rich than unprotected areas of the country, but both areas experienced […]
Finland’s diversity strategy proposal sets a 10% target for forest protection
About 100,000 hectares would be protected in private forests and 530,000 hectares in state forests. Since 10 percent would be a national target rather than a target for each province, the proportion of protected forests is likely to remain low – less than five percent – ​​in the southern parts of the country, despite having […]
The Ministry of Finance announces its own climate and nature strategy
The Ministry of Finance classified the risks arising from crises into physical and transitional risks, examples of which are floods, droughts, storms and the erosion potential of agricultural land. Transition-related risks, on the other hand, are caused by measures to adjust economic and production systems, including effects on the prices of high-emission products that their […]
Finnish companies expect to benefit from the global diversity agreement
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has estimated that more than half of the world’s gross domestic product is dependent on nature and the services it provides – and thus exposed to the risks of biodiversity loss, the stakeholder group emphasized press release on the 19th of December. If, for example, deforestation or the decline of […]
Ohisalo: Cop15 result more than many dared to expect
“We are talking about a tipping point to halt the loss of biodiversity worldwide.” The countries of the world agreed at the conference to halt and reverse the loss of biodiversity by 2030, to protect at least 30 percent of all land and water areas by 2030, and to restore 30 percent of degraded land, […]
UN Conference on Biological Diversity reaches agreement to halt biodiversity loss by 2030 – 30% conservation and restoration target for world’s nations
In addition, the parties agreed to restore at least 30 percent of land and water ecosystems by 2030. “This is a turning point in global efforts to stop the decline of biological diversity, which can be compared to the role of the Paris Agreement in combating the climate crisis. Finland is now also committed to […]
Marin criticized demanding climate action in Egypt and curbing it in Finland
“Imagine if the leader of another country demanded global action to stop the climate crisis and biodiversity loss, but supported blocking such action at home,” he tweeted. “I expect the Prime Minister to give an equally decisive answer to the question about the EU [nature] restoration [law] like what he just delivered in Egypt.” The […]
Writing a new chapter in a new era towards the future
More than 700 million people were lifted out of poverty, which achieved the poverty reduction goal set in the UN’s 2030 action plan for sustainable development 10 years ahead of schedule. As a long-term promoter of world peace, a promoter of global development and a maintainer of international order, China follows an independent foreign policy […]
EU environment ministers discuss ways to combat biodiversity loss and adapt to climate change
They are also preparing for the UN climate conference in Egypt’s Sharm El-Sheikh from 6 to 18 November 2022. “It is very important for the EU to be the world’s leading leader in nature and climate policy. Climate change and the loss of biodiversity are linked, so they must be tackled together,” says State Secretary […]
Finns are increasingly concerned about the state of nature – the loss of biodiversity is now recognized as a threat
Compared to the 2020 barometer, concerns about the state of nature have grown both globally and in Finland. The share of those concerned about the state of the world’s nature rose by 9% and the share of those concerned about Finland’s nature by 15%. 47% of respondents have become more aware of biodiversity and the […]
YLE: Finland is working on an ambitious strategy to halt the loss of biodiversity
Ari-Pekka AuvinenA researcher at the Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) compared the significance and ambition of the strategy to the goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2035. While previous domestic and international efforts to halt biodiversity loss have failed, he is cautiously optimistic about the efforts. partly because of the greater societal importance given to biodiversity. […]
Finland’s 41st National Park opens to Eastern Lapland
Finland’s 41st National Park was officially opened in Salla, Eastern Lapland, on Saturday. The conversion of the nature reserve into a national park is projected to double the number of visitors to the wilderness area near the eastern border. The wilderness area of ​​about 100 square kilometers is characterized by mountain and mountain views, gorges, […]
International Environment Conference in Stockholm – 50 years of environmental action
The 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment led to the establishment of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and a number of international environmental agreements. The conference was a key milestone in the development of international environmental governance and cooperation, and the establishment of an environmental program is celebrated annually on World Environment Day […]
UN chief calls for “common future for all lives”
Guterres said in a statement on International Biodiversity Day on May 22 each year. A senior UN official warned that three-quarters of the country and 66 percent of the marine environment had changed significantly as a result of human action, and called for an end to the “senseless and destructive war against nature.” The Secretary-General […]
The SPP re-elects Henriksson; Ohisalo returns to the Greens’ conference
Minister of Justice Anna-Maja Henriksson was unanimously re-elected leader of the Swedish People’s Party (SPP) on Sunday in Turku. Henriksson, who has led the party since 2016, ran without opposition. "We have repeatedly shown that we in Finland are the driving force behind the equal value of the people, all equal rights and freedoms and […]
Human greed leads to chronic soil degradation worldwide, says sharp UN report
The second edition of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), entitled “Global Land Outlook” (GLO), which precedes the UNCCD’s COP15 conference in Africa, sheds light on the way in which land resources – soil, water and biodiversity – are currently poorly managed and misused and how it threatens the health and continued survival […]
