Making the environment count

Björk, Olle; Palm, Viveka; Steinbach, Nancy; Lone, Øyvind; Kolshus, Kristine; Pedersen, Ole Gravgaard; Krarup, Signe; Kolttola, Leo; Lindblom, Annika

doi:10.6027/tn2016-507

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“…To achieve lasting dietary changes, it is often helpful to address public knowledge with a focus on food literacy and be able to communicate the importance and urgency efficiently. Recent studies indicate that the people in the Nordic countries are concerned about the environment [78]. They want regular information from trusted, transparent and balanced sources but also need extra help in their daily lives to make beneficial changes and assess their contributions.…”

Section: Towards a Healthy And Environmentally Sustainable Nordic mentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Sustainability Perspectives of the Nordic Diet

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“The Nordic diet” is an umbrella term that encompasses any interpretation that combines Food-Based Dietary Guidelines (FBDGs) with local Nordic foods. The five Nordic countries have collaborated on Nordic Nutrition Recommendations for forty years, including FBDGs, so their national guidelines are similar. The countries also share similar public health issues, including widespread nonconformity to the guidelines, although in different ways. The aim of this concept paper is to discuss environmental sustainability aspects of the Nordic diet, describe the status of and make suggestions for the inclusion of sustainability in future work on the Nordic diet. We exploit the sustainability–health synergy. A food intake more in line with the current FBDGs, which emphasises more plant-based and less animal-based foods, is necessary for high environmental sustainability. In turn, sustainability is an important motivator for health-promoting dietary shifts. Policy development requires long-term efforts. Since the Nordic diet can be considered a further development and improvement of old, traditional diets, there is huge potential to formulate a Nordic diet that benefits both human and planetary health. It is time for concerted engagement and actions—a new Nordic nutrition transition.

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Section: Towards a Healthy And Environmentally Sustainable Nordic mentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Sustainability Perspectives of the Nordic Diet

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“…In the analysed European countries, expenditures on environmental protection finance all activities and actions that are aimed at the prevention, reduction, and elimination of pollution and of any other degradation of the environment. This also includes tasks and measures that contribute to the restoration of the environment after it has been degraded (Björk et al, 2016). In the studied countries, in the period between 2007 and 2020, differences were noted both in the share of the local government environmental protection expenditures in the expenditures of the general government sector (Table 2, Figure 3), and in the share of environmental protection expenditures in total (Table 2, Figure 1, Figure 2).…”

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Determinants of the expenditure side of environmental federalism – panel data research on countries in Europe

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2023

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The purpose of the article is to examine the influence of financial, socio-economic, and environmental degradation factors on the expenditure scope of environmental federalism. The panel data models were estimated based on 26 European countries for the period between 2007 and 2020. The research hypothesis of the article posits that the sound fiscal position of the local government and the financial sustainability stemming from it deepens the expenditure side of environmental federalism, especially when considering the population and its structure, the size of the economy, population, and the pollution generated by it. The article reveals that local government avoidance of both deficits and excessive indebtedness ends up promoting a higher scope of expenditure side of environmental federalism. In addition, in European countries, the significance of expenditures on environmental protection visible in local budgets is increased for smaller economies that are less environmentally degraded.

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“…The WAVES initiative, led by the World Bank, mapped the status of environmental accounts and their use in 12 mostly developed countries in 2013, including Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden (Smith 2014). Then in 2016, the Nordic Council of Ministers published a report about various Nordic indicators that have been compiled from the data in environmentaleconomic accounts (Björk et al 2016). This second report focuses on the indicators and environmental-economic accounts that can be used to monitor and analyse economic factors on the environment, including pressures on the environment and policy responses.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The working group suggested several avenues of development. These include recommending that existing statistical frameworks, national accounts and environmental accounts should be used to integrate economic data with environmental data; and that these accounts should then be used as a tool to analyse important policy issues, structural changes and important factors contributing to environmental pressures, "footprints", and policy instrument design (Björk et al 2016).…”

Section: Tea Nömmann and Virpi Lehtorantamentioning

confidence: 99%