EXTRACTS FROM 2020 FINLAND VOLUNTRAY SDG REPORT TO UN SDGS
Finland also promotes the 2030 Agenda Goals as part of its national space strategy. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland develops space technologies and competence, such as image analysis technologies based on artificial intelligence and other analysis methodologies. These enable the use of satellite and drone images for purposes such as performing forest inventories, analyzing plantations and monitoring the environmental status of water bodies.
The crux of reaching sustainability in the coming decades will be people’s capacity and willingness to develop and combine all kinds of technologies and practices in novel, more sustainable and even surprising ways. This requires seeing everyone – farmer and city-dweller, student and elderly, entrepreneur and worker – from a changed perspective: people are not problems; they are potential problem-solvers. Give them encouragement and possibilities to learn and to try new things, and they can begin making a difference. If we do this, taking a path to sustainability will not only be a hard challenge. It will become a hero’s journey, for us all.
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Finland aims to promote AI competence widely to ensure that no-one is left behind in its development. A good example is the web-based Elements of AI course open to everyone free of charge. The course, developed as a joint project between the University of Helsinki and technology company Reaktor, offers a low-threshold opportunity to acquire basic AI skills. Over 270 000 students from more than 170 countries have signed up for the course.
Finland is a leading subject-matter expert on artificial intelligence (AI) and digital public goods in the follow-up process of the report of the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation; through this work, Finland supports international digital cooperation by strengthening rules-based governance and sustainable development. Finland contributes to the Unit established at the Executive Office of the SecretaryGeneral, with the task of coordinating the follow-up to the report of the High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation, by 400 000 euros and one JPO.
Furthermore, Finland supports the UNICEF’s AI and Child Rights Policy Project, aiming to develop guidance sensitive to children’s rights for companies and governments utilizing AI. The project is funded by 859 000 euros. 159 PUBLICATIONS OF THE PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE 2020:8 VOLUNTARY NATIONAL REVIEW 2020 FINLAND – REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 2030 AGENDA FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT By means of innovation programs, implemented by Business Finland and VTT, Finland supports the invention of innovations concerning sustainable development, as well as the scaling of innovations internationally. Via the aforementioned programs, sustainable solutions are developed concerning e.g. clean energy (SDG7), circular economy (SDG8, SDG12), smart industry (SDG9), health and well-being (SDG3), clean technologies and lowcarbon solutions (SDG13), urbanization (SDG11), and digital solutions.
Finland also promotes the 2030 Agenda Goals as part of its national space strategy. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland develops space technologies and competence, such as image analysis technologies based on artificial intelligence and other analysis methodologies. These enable the use of satellite and drone images for purposes such as performing forest inventories, analyzing plantations and monitoring the environmental status of water bodies.
During Finland’s Presidency of the European Union (2019), Finland actively promoted the mainstreaming of human rights defenders, women and girls and LHBTI rights in various sectors of the EU’s foreign and security policy. As President of the Council of Europe (2019) Finland took initiatives to increase the institution’s effectiveness and promotion of the rule of law, and promoted action on human rights -centred artificial intelligence.
Finland seeks new, fast-acting measures and initiatives to combat climate change and implement its ambitious national climate targets. A good example is cooperation between the Government and industrial sectors to draw up roadmaps in identifying development paths for different sectors and businesses to reduce their own climate emissions. In addition to the major GHG-emitting industrial sectors (energy, forestry, technology, and chemistry), the work is also being carried out in ten other sectors.
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