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22 for April 22, 2022: A Finnish Earth Day list

Every year, April 22 marks Earth Day all over the world, reminding governments, businesses and citizens to take action on environmental issues. For April 22, 2022, here’s a 22-item listing of promising progress that is happening in Finland.

Life & society Environment

Finland’s European Green Capital and Green Leaf cities aim for lasting legacies

Having risen to the challenge of successfully staging a landmark event during a pandemic, the city of Lahti is focused on making a lasting environmental contribution.

Business & innovation Innovation

Protein and power out of thin air: Finnish projects capture value in CO2

Finnish innovations are finding new uses for carbon dioxide, such as creating fuel or even food. Could this help save humanity from itself?

13%

of Finnish forests are protected

Source: Discovering Finland

Life & society Sustainability

Circular economy success: Finland’s recycling programme keeps bottles and cans off the streets

We see how Finland’s deposit system for bottles and cans achieves a recycling rate of more than 90 percent, and how city administrators and event organisers supplement the system with their own resourceful programmes.

Business & innovation Webpick

Ideas for a better life: Millennium Technology Prize livestream and online innovation forum

The 2020 Millennium Technology Prize winner is announced at a livestreamed ceremony on May 18, 2021. The ceremony is followed by a virtual event, the Millennium Innovation Forum, held online on May 19.

38%

of the total energy use in Finland is renewable energy

Source: Statistics Finland

Business & innovation Webpick

Helsinki Energy Challenge helps create the future of heating

With the Helsinki Energy Challenge, the Finnish capital recognises innovations that offer new solutions for the city’s heating system, which accounts for more than half of Helsinki’s total emissions.

Business & innovation Sustainability

Finnish wood works

Light, strong, warm and environmentally friendly, wood is making a comeback in construction and popping up in some unexpected applications.

Life & society Sustainability

Living everyday life sustainably in Finland

Knowledge shared is knowledge doubled: We see how one woman’s idea became upcycled into a community information centre.

Number of Unesco World Heritage sites in Finland

Source: Unesco