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Outi Berghäll Ministry of the Environment, Finland

NATIONAL EFFORTS TO INCREASE CO-OPERATION AND SYNERGIES BETWEEN MEAS IN AN INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRY: CASE OF FINLAND. Outi Berghäll Ministry of the Environment, Finland. Finland strives to promote synergies at various levels. international: multilateral activities, bilateral aid

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Outi Berghäll Ministry of the Environment, Finland

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  1. NATIONAL EFFORTS TO INCREASE CO-OPERATION AND SYNERGIES BETWEEN MEAS IN AN INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRY: CASE OF FINLAND Outi Berghäll Ministry of the Environment, Finland

  2. Finland strives to promote synergies at various levels • international: multilateral activities, bilateral aid • national: policies and programmes • sub-national and local levels • public/ private partnerships

  3. Aims of co-operation: efficient use of resources • Resource efficiency makes sense: human resources, financial resources • Efficacy in the use of resources: • need to avoid working at cross-purposes • need to avoid or at least minimise trade-offs • exploiting opportunities for double dividents

  4. Creating an institutional framework conducive to co-operation and synergies • Existing institutional set up as a starting point: large vs small, high vs low, administrative culture • Ensuring common language • Setting up appropriate institutional arrangements - commissions, committees, task forces etc. and their memberships.

  5. Tasks : • Streamlining tasks and combining similar tasks: e.g. reporting, capacity building, promotion of technology transfer • Identifying and taking action on critical issues for synergies/ trade-offs • Monitoring – indicators

  6. Basis for genuine co-operation: sharing same concerns • "Creating the demand"- need to make policy makers and implementers aware of commonalities • Developing the theory" - identifying common issues in the context of differentiated mandates, CBD AHTEG as an example, research • "Applying the theory": Need to be practical; avenues and tools of issue identification in practice:, task forces, EIA, SEA • Adopting an integrated approach

  7. *Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) as an example of the integrated approach • ACIA: comprehensive assessment of climate change and its impacts on the Arctic Regions • much focus on social and economic impacts, impacts on ecosystems, assessing key vulnerabilities, adaptive capacities • multistressor situation: impact of UV and pollution • Leading to policy recommendations on mitigation, adaptation, education, training and partnerships, as well as research, monitoring and observation. • Regional approach – recommendations at all levels, addressed to all actors.

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