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Circular Economy Roadmap Experience from Finland
3.9.2020
Kari Herlevi
Project Director
Circular Economy
Sitra
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Building our future together.
Five important things
1. A gift from Parliament to the 50-year-old Finland. Still under the direct control of the Finnish Parliament.
2. An independent future house: a futurologist, visionary, developer, experimentalist, financier, partner, trainer, and networker.
3. The aim is the successful Finland of tomorrow, the vision is the next era of well-being – a fair and sustainable future.
4. Funded by returns on endowment capital and capital investments.
5. The vision is implemented by three themes and hundreds of projects.
Why Circular Economy Roadmap?
The world needs pioneering solutions to ensure that economic growth and increased well-being are no longer based on a wasteful use of natural resources.
Finland has a real opportunity to create sustainable well-being and a successful carbon neutral circular economy over the next 5-10 years.
Sitra’s Circular Economy Focus area was launched to create shared mindset and cross sectoral cooperation in Finnish society to promote circular economy.
Circular Economy Roadmap shows the way to Finland’s sustainable future and determines the most effective means to do it.
The implementation of the road map is done in cooperation with various stakeholders and it started Finland’s transition towards a circular economy.
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20302018
This is where we should be.This is where we are now.
10,300
kgCO2e
2,500
kgCO2e
Well, 87% regard it as very important or fairly important that Finland’s transition to a circular economy takes place before 2025.
What do Finns think?
Source: Sitra (2019): Awareness study on the circular economy
We need stronger
steering across
government silos.
Cross-cutting administrative cooperation would speed up joint projects and policy measures.
Business innovations
are still focused on energy effiency and reducing waste.
A holistic change can be seen only on few sectors.
The transition to
a carbon-neutral
circular economy
raises questions about the impacts on employment and well-being of industries and regions.
Are we on the right track?
Only 9 percent of the 93 billion tons of minerals, fossil fuels, metals and biomass that enter the economy are captured and reused annually. In 2018, Finns produced a record amount of waste.
Lähteet: Circle Economy 2019; Tilastokeskus 2020, Earth Overshoot Day 2019; EEA 2019; Chatham House 2020
Over 70,000 children and
young people are learning about the circular economy
this school year.
Key players of the circular economy
PEOPLECOMPANIESTOWNS AND
CITIES
STATE
ADMINISTRATION
Co-operation between ministries to promote more effective circular economy work.
Towns are accelerating the progress towards a circular economy by activating the
regional operators and producing the best possible
framework for the promotion of the circular economy.
TOWNS AND CITIES
STATE
ADMINISTRATION
A customer-centred approach, overuse of natural resources,
climate change and the development of technology are
shifting business operations towards a circular economy.
The shared use of goods, renting and reuse are becoming
more popular.
COMPANIES
PEOPLE
How do we get started?
Don’t worry! We are publishing a guidebook based on our
learnings in late September!
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Why not rent or share, rather than owning all
that stuff?
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Thank you!
Kari HerleviProject Directorp. [email protected]@kherlevi