Finland's national circular economy road map

Finland's national circular economy road map

A news from Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra

New ways for Finland to increase the creation of added value

The world's first circular economy road map shows the way to sustainable success. Finland's national circular economy road map is beginning to create new solutions for Finland to offer a world challenged by climate change, dwindling natural resources and urbanisation. The first circular economy solutions are based on areas where Finland is traditionally strong, thus making it possible to offer tens of thousands of new jobs and generating billions of euros in added value each year.

Finland has a real opportunity to create sustainable well-being and a successful carbon-neutral circular economy over the next 5 to 10 years. It maximises the conservation of materials and their value in circulation for as long as possible which, in turn, keeps the volume of emissions they produce to a minimum. The road map shows how to make the transition to a circular economy.

The change requires co-operation across sectoral and industrial boundaries. In many cases, the most attractive opportunities for new operating methods, for services made possible by digitisation and for extending the circulation of materials can be found somewhere in the middle.

"The effectiveness of new solutions ultimately stems from the fact that they can be expanded and duplicated both elsewhere in Finland and around the world," says Sitra Director Mari Pantsar. She stresses that the work is just beginning. "Systematic change will require more fresh and even radical ideas in the future." (...)

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Extract from an article published on SITRA website 29 September 2016

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