The aim of this action is to model critical change thresholds for local ecosystems and communities due to combined effects of growing tourism industry and impacts of climate change. Increasing...

This action will focus on the Pallas-Yllästunturi national park and the adjacent forest region, located in northern Finland north of the Arctic Circle. Climate change in the Arctic areas can r...

This action will provide Earth observation-based extended GMES services for FinLTSER environmental network points-of-interest, as a basis for the sector-specific assessment work in actions 5-1...

  Climate change scenarios indicate that warming of the lower troposphere increases northwards. Changes in precipitation, daily minimum and maximum temperature, solar radiation, snow...

This action will focus on the synthesis and dissemination of the results of the entire project. The action will produce the main general dissemination material of the project (www-pages, broch...

This action will focus on the coastal ecosystems in the Western Gulf of Finland. The region comprises a number of natural resources with conservation, recreation, or economic values, which are...

Today, over 50% of the global human population lives in cities. The urban population is estimated to grow rapidly still in the future. Increased human population and the consequent urbanizatio...

This action aims to demonstrate how climate change may affect agricultural production and environment, including impacts on productivity of farming, choice of crops and production methods, imp...

The action attempts to clarify how climate change will influence the forest production and production conditions and how that will influence the productivity of alternative silvicultural schem...

The first major project of the FinLTSER-network started 1.1.2009 with funding from the LIFE+ instrument of the EU. The VACCIA-project (Vulnerability assessment of ecosystem services for climat...

  This action will focus on the technical and financial management of the project. The components of the management structure are: 1) Management Board formed by the project leader (...

Project Description This project was part of the bilateral co-operation program between Finland and Latvia, and it was funded by the Finnish Government through the Ministry of Environment of Fin...

Project Description The overall objective of this project was to provide assistance to eight Regional Environmental Protection Departments (REPDs) in Lithuania and to the Lithuanian Environmenta...

Project Description The project purpose was to strengthen environmental monitoring and management tools of the Georgian Ministry for Environmental Protection and Natural Resources and other auth...

Project Description The Ministry of Trade and Industry has overall responsibility for the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol's flexible mechanisms to offset Finnish greenhouse gas emissions. S...

Project Description To improve the environmental situation of the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea, it is necessary to develop and implement a joint program of measures needed for pre­venting ...

Project Description The project supported the implementation of the Strategic Institutional Plan of the Nicaraguan environmental administration, namely the Ministry of Environment and Natural Re...

Lake Aulankojärvi © Jouko Lehmuskallio Together with the Natural Resources Institute Finland, SYKE has the main responsibility for the monitoring and evaluation of the METSO Programme. ...

Project Description General studies in the Mediterranean Environmental Technical Assistance Programme (METAP) have demonstrated that environmental degradation can cause significant economic loss...

Project Description The overall objective was to integrate Lithuanian environmental management with EU policies in the fields of Integrated Product Policy (IPP) and on Environmental Technologies...