The Finnish Expert Panel for Sustainable Development gets a term extension until the end of 2027

5.6.2025 The Finnish Expert Panel for Sustainable Development was appointed for an extended term until the end of 2027 at the Government Plenary Session on the June 5th. According to the original timetable, the term of the Expert Panel would only have lasted until the end of 2025. With this government decision, the term of the Finnish Expert Panel for Sustainable Development coincides with other Finnish science panels. The Finnish …

Over 250 visitors looked into a sustainable future in the Room 2050 by the Finnish Expert Panel for Sustainable Development

30.5.2025 On May 25–26, the Finnish Expert Panel for Sustainable Development hosted a Room 2050 event at Helsinki Central Library Oodi, offering visitors a chance to experience and imagine what life might look like in a post-sustainability transformation future in the year 2050. The event was organised in collaboration with the Falay Transition Design collective. Some photos and materials of Room 2050 (photos by Savannah Vize, Falay Transition Design): Room …

The Finnish Expert Panel for Sustainable Development invites citizens to participate Room 2050 at Oodi, May 25th–26th!

13.5.25 The Finnish Expert Panel for Sustainable Development invites everyone to visit the Room of Future, where it is possible to experience and imagine what a post-sustainability transformation future looks and feels like. Room 2050 is organised in collaboration with the Falay Transition Design collective at Helsinki Central Library Oodi from Sunday to Monday, May 25th–26th. The Room of Future is based on three positive images of futures created in …

The Finnish Expert Panel for Sustainable Development has created three positive images of futures and invites citizens to vision a sustainable tomorrow

15.4.2025 The Finnish Expert Panel for Sustainable Development has developed three outlines of parallel, complementary, positive and realistic images of futures for a sustainable future: The True-cost Economy, Planetary Rules and Sustainability Awareness Revolution. The outlines were created in collaboration with Demos Helsinki to facilitate societal discussion on visioning sustainable futures in Finland. The outlines are based on a comprehensive data analysis and the gaps in the existing images of …

Finnish Expert Panel for Sustainable Development publishes a new policy brief 

The Finnish Expert Panel for Sustainable Development publishes a policy brief for central government titled Towards successful sustainability transition for Finland: Boundaries from nature, power from the people.  In the policy brief the Expert Panel proposes a dual strategy to save the Finnish welfare society. The policy brief includes concrete proposals for action, a proposal for a key set of indicators that link economic, social and ecological sustainability, and examples …

Panelists

Sustainability Panel 2023-2025 Lassi Linnanen, chair I am the Professor of Environmental Management and Economics at LUT University. My areas of expertise include sustainability science, sustainability assessment and sustainability change, and I also examine these issues through the lens of environmental economics.  What are the most important aspects of sustainable development? The most important task, both in Finland and globally, is to bring interpretations, decision-making and measures of sustainable development …