FINLAND STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT REPORTING Cyprus Bosnia and Herzegovina Montenegro Liechtenstein Kosovo (*) Four information Croatia packages covering Romania four themes were The state of the published, including environment in Serbia policy briefs and Finland – including a Spain podcasts website for indicators. Albania Lithuania Report: Italy The state of the North Macedonia environment in Finland Malta Finnish nature Sweden CD-Facta – Story on the state of the Norway environment”, Turkey 2 CD-ROMs Slovenia Latvia The future of the Greece Finnish Slovakia environment Third report: Luxembourg The state of the France Finnish environment Denmark Czechia Second report: Bulgaria The state of the Switzerland Finnish environment Netherlands Estonia Austria Portugal First national SoE- report published: Hungary Review on the state of Ireland the environment in Finland Germany Belgium Poland United Kingdom Finland 2019 Finnish Open Data Programme 2013 – 2015 by Ministry of Finance, avoindata.fi/en National Energy and Climate Strategy. 2030 Agenda for sustainable development Paris Agreement on Climate Change Milestones in Finland State of the environment tools and building blocks TOPICS COVERED Themes Data Indicators Scoreboards Assessments showing environmental providing knowledge on • Natural resources from giving insight in • Communities and transport • Environmental monitoring • Driving forces • Environmental trends • State and past trends Air pollutants • • Key registers and databases • Pressures • Policy progress • Trends and outlooks • Biodiversity • States • Systemic challenges and • Chemicals and hazardous substances • Dedicated data sources and • Impacts responses • Green economy analysis • State of waters • Responses • Microplastic • Circular economy • Urban nature and human health • Climate change and black carbon Sectors • Forestry • Agriculture • Energy • Traffic and export • Building • Mining Systems and Sustainability transitions Effective indicators and evidence base Open and accessible knowledge Innovative sustainability assessments • ”Finland fights climate change” including the monitoring of emerging with an emphasis on digital information and that address the challenge and prospects of • ”Shifting from linear economy to a circular economy” themes, sustainability transitions, and long usage of diverse channels, interactive data long-term sustainability transitions, broaden term systemic challenges but also visualisation storytelling and provision of stakeholder participation, indicate barriers incorporating new data sources. open data and models. Reporting and and levers for participatory solutions and communicating has concentrated on specific link knowledge to action. Use of citizen themes since 2017. Policy briefs and science and participatory methods in podcasts support communication. gathering data is an important part of assessing the state of environment. Advances in national state of the environment reporting.