Little things together make a huge difference and clean environment. Further, responsible operators undoubtedly attract conscious visitors better than their less responsible competitors. Considering t......

Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) and Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) report to Statistics Finland for provisioning of various material, environmental and ecosystem accounts in Finland....

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Project background and objectives With increasing environmental pressures and decreasing resources, we need a transition to a circular economy. When enabling and speeding up circular tran...

Основная информация о проекте Начало проекта : 2018 год Конец проекта: 2022 год Ответственный за проект : Кати Питкянен Команда проекта: Тару Пелтола, Йоханна Ниемистё, Анне Холма ...

Bigger picture:  A circular economy allows reduction in the consumption of natural resources (PDF ) ...

On this site you find a collection of circular economy illustrations and infographics from SYKE publications over the years. The content is free to download and use. Clicking on the titles on this pa...

Clearing forest for agricultural use leads to the risk of global species loss especially in tropical countries. For example, areas where coffee and cocoa are grown have many endemic species that are ......

The social and ecological sustainability levels vary among the countries of the world. It would be the most sustainable and fair for a country to achieve well-being without exceeding the planetary bo......

A notable part of the existing regulation focuses on the outermost cycles of the circular economy – namely waste policies. Many of the instruments affecting the inner cycles limit and control the reu......

Raw material consumption in Finland follows the development of gross domestic product. The goal would be to avoid growth in raw material consumption even if GDP grows. RMC reveals how much raw materi......

Bigger picture:  Regulatory framework for management of chemicals (PDF) ...

Finland has achieved the social goals in all areas except employment. However, Finnish consumption is not sustainable; the environmental impact of per capita consumption exceeds the fair level. ......

Bigger picture:  The concept of sustainable circular bioeconomy (PDF) ...

The planetary boundaries (green line) have already been overstepped in climate change, biodiversity loss, flows of nitrogen and phosphorus, and land use change. Planetary boundary processes are inter......

The WasteLess project works with rural villages and schools in order to develop recycling solutions and help prevent excess waste. We are documenting our various events, meetings and new ideas in vid...

In a sustainable circular economy harmful substances are reduced at all stages of a product's life cycle. See bigger picture: Managing chemicals in the circular economy.pdf  ......

Promotion of a circular economy is worthwhile especially in industries which use large amounts of natural resources. Since 2015 total use of natural resources has grown to some degree. The bigg......

Circular economy seeks for economic and environmental benefits. The bigger picture: Elements and benefits of the circular economy.pdf ...

Sustainability transition requires addressing wicked complex bundles of problems and new unforeseen risks. Sustainability transition redistributes benefits and impacts - and forces us to give up our o......