Air pollutants

The environment.fi website will be renewed

The renewed environment.fi website will be published by the end of March

The renewed environment.fi website will be published in the last week of March. The most important changes of the renewal concern the content. Environment.fi has implemented new functionalities that improve the user experience. The look of the site has also been renewed and the publication system has changed. This means that the vast majority of the current environment.fi addresses will change, but the important shortcuts will continue to work. Read more

Finland has a good air quality

Emissions into the air and water have clearly reduced in Finland over the last decades. Many of the targets set for emission reduction have either already been met or their achievement seems probable by the target year.

Nitrogen emissions have declined by almost one half and sulphur emissions by more than three quarters since 1990. Measures taken to reduce ammonia emissions have not, however, been as effective, because no feasible technical solutions have been found for reducing emissions. Particle emissions have also remained more or less unchanged throughout the 2000s and there are no signs of reduction. Despite this the days with poor air quality remain rare in Finland.