Finland’s National Biodiversity Strategy

Finland’s National Biodiversity Strategy includes the following issues:  Finland’s National Biodiversity Strategy takes into consideration European Union and global biodiversity targets and is based on the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan. Objectives are included in the European Union Biodiversity Strategy and United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. A preparation process for a new National Biodiversity Strategy and up to 2030 related action plan is topical. The strategy concentrates on enhancing the protection of biodiversity, promoting the restoration of degraded ecosystems and developing methods to measure the actions and their impacts.  Besides the national objectives, the strategy takes into consideration the objectives of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity and the new European Union Biodiversity Strategy.

 The strategy targets include the cessation for the loss of the biodiversity and instead, the recovery of the biodiversity.  The European Union Biodiversity Strategy extends to 2030. In December 2022 the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Montreal adopted the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework with four long-term goals and 23 targets.

The Treaties of the European Union do not include a common forest policy, but areas related to forests are included in many sectoral policies of the European Union. The development of certification is included in the European Union Forest Strategy. Especially, many regulations and directives in agricultural, environmental, climate and energy policies impact the use and management of forests directly or indirectly.
In accordance with the European Union Forest Strategy, the European Commission has explored the certification of forest management for recommendations of measures - which are voluntary. This means that forest owners can use them for the management of their forests if they want to do so.

Finland’s biodiversity policy in Finland includes a process for preparing a new National Biodiversity Strategy and an action plan to 2030 related to this. In addition to national objectives, the strategy takes into consideration the objectives of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the new European Union Biodiversity Strategy. The Convention on Biological Diversity is an international legal instrument. Its comprehensive objective is to encourage actions which will head to a sustainable future.