Sufficiency Policies Offer Solutions to Finland’s Structural Overconsumption
1.12.2025 Structural overconsumption, driven by institutional and cultural frameworks that promote unsustainable consumption, is one of Finland’s greatest obstacles to sustainability. The Finnish Parliament’s Committee for the Future’s Overconsumption Steering Group requested a specialist statement on this issue from members of the Finnish Expert Panel for Sustainable Development: Professor Lassi Linnanen (Environmental Economics, LUT University) and Professor Niko Soininen (Environmental Law, University of Eastern Finland). Their conclusion: Finland needs a …