Finnish budget to boost environment spending

Finland's environment policy budget will rise by 4% to E980m in 2007, with an increase in environmental farming subsidies planned, the environment ministry has announced.  Major planned investments include E10m towards a new pollution-combatting vessel for the Baltic Sea, and increased spending on managing oil wastes and reclaiming contaminated sites, to be financed through an increase in oil waste charges. 

An annual assessment of Finland's environment published alongside the budget highlights Finland's high carbon dioxide emissions and the urgent need to reduce nutrient pollution from farmland to combat eutrophication. 

See environment ministry press release http://www.ymparisto.fi/default.asp?contentid=200815&lan=en.

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