Photo: Minna-Kristiina Sassi In addition to carbon dioxide (CO2), many air pollutants, such as fine particles, also have a significant impact on the climate. Especially particulate matt...

Picture: Olli-Pekka Pietiläinen Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) evaluates air pollution emissions and their impacts on the climate, environment and human health. The evaluations are ...

Photo: Olli-Pekka Pietiäinen   The research team is working in the group of Air Pollution and Mitigation of Cl...

Photo: Olli-Pekka Pietiläinen Fine particles in ambient air are considered to be the worst air pollution for human health. Significant health effects are observed already at relatively ...

Fig. Spatial distribution of modelled fine particle consentrations in Finland in 2010   SYKE develops integrat...

Photo: Olli-Pekka Pietiläinen Ongoing projects Development of black carbon (BC) footprint-concept and climate impact metrics of BC emissions ( BC-Footprint ). Nordic road...

Photo: Olli-Pekka Pietiläinen Most important publications Peer-reviewed Publications Reports and Popularized Articles More comprehensive publication list in SYKE’s...

Velmu collects data on the occurrence of underwater marine biotopes, species and communities in Finland’s marine waters. The programme contributes to the Baltic marine protection and to the sust...

In Finland, PM air pollution has been confirmed as the most important source of environmental burden of disease (EBD). The mainstream international evaluations regarding the effects of air pollution h...

Since a substantial part of transboundary emissions in the Nordic countries are attributable to emission sources in the Russian Federation, it is important to involve Russian experts in the modelling...

Kuva: Antti Samuli Short-lived climate forcers (SLCFs) include black carbon, methane, tropospheric ozone and some hydrofluorocarbons (H...

The impacts from air pollution are not equally distributed, but depend on socio-demograhic and socio-economic factors, including age, gender, social status, education level, ethnic group, living condi...

There are three main Project’s component: Component 1. Cooperatio Experience and information exchange among organizations and ongoing Projects on the territory of Issyk-Kul Oblast. Carrying...

The overall objective (intended long-term impact) of the Project is to increase the capacity of Tajik authorities to provide reliable environmental information of surface water quality both for the c...

Urban Zone 3 project is dealing with the future development of the urban form in Finnish urban regions. Travel-related urban zone method is applied in various planning cases of different-sized Finnis...

* The project has ended * The final seminar of the project was arranged in collaboration with the parliamentary "Energiaremontti" group 23 January 2019. Following the link below you can access t...

Background Improvements in resource efficiency and waste reduction coupled with new business models are likely to become increasingly important for manufacturing. Recently much attention has bee...

Research professor PhD, Docent Academy of Finland Research Fellow © Kai Widell Contact information Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Climate solutions Pol......

  Research Vessel Aranda Aranda is a modern, ice-reinforced research vessel. She was planned and built for Baltic Sea research, but she is able to operate in all seas. Aran...