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Sat, 16 Mar, 2013 04:51:42 AM
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The central, regional and local governments should facilitate creation of preconditions for green growth, recommends a research report of the Finnish Natural Resource and Environmental Research Consortium (LYNET).

The report also proposes creating preconditions for green growth through a joint vision and political commitment, stimulating companies’ green growth potentials and boosting green demand, facilitating green pilots and trials for the domestic and export markets, creating international and domestic strategic openings and partnerships, creating space for green growth by removing wasteful systems, and fostering continuous and systematic learning as an accelerator of green growth, said a government press release on Friday.

Transition to green growth requires a comprehensive introduction of smart and sustainable solutions and changes in the structures of society, in the operational organisation of communities and business, and in consumption, says the report.

The report includes proposals for taking steps towards green growth. The steps are based on a review of earlier research and studies relating to Finland's key consumption and production systems (food, housing, transport, and energy) and to certain path-finding countries in terms of the green economy (the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, and Brazil).

Green growth is considered to have significant worldwide potential, which is currently evident, particularly in the rapid growth of cleantech demand. Companies have a key role to play in green growth, but realising green growth also requires changes in consumption.

Terming the green growth an opportunity for Finland, the report says there are opportunities for green growth in all sectors of society.

Successful future actors will be more material- and energy-efficient than their competitors and they will be able to provide services and products flexibly for a low-carbon society. 

According to Prime Minister Katainen's Government Programme, this government strives for a Finland that is among the world's front runners in environment friendly, resource- and material-efficient economies and as developer of sustainable consumption and production methods.

Green growth is defined as low-carbon, resource-efficient economic growth based on safeguarding the functional capacity of ecosystems and promoting wellbeing and social justice. 

The LYNET report seeks the kind of policy decisions by which preconditions for green growth may be created in Finland. It is the final report of a project that has examined the opportunities for green growth.

The report provides an overall picture of the current state of green economy and its future potentials and possible challenges. It also examines different models for supporting a change towards a green economy, highlights examples of successful green businesses, and draws attention to measures that promote green growth.

 
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