Calculators and tools for assessing and monitoring environmental impacts
Calculators and tools for citizens, businesses, and decision-makers
The calculators help citizens, businesses, and decision-makers to track and reduce their environmental impacts, such as carbon footprint, water consumption, and nutrient load.
You can find more calculators and tools on our Finnish website.
Autocalculator – Climate impact and cost assessment tool
The Autocalculator is an online calculator that is intended to support consumers in their decision to purchase a car. The calculator shows the cumulative life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions and costs of car options based on different fuel types. The calculator, developed by the Finnish Climate Change Panel, is the work of researchers from the Finnish Environment Institute and the Universities of Tampere and Helsinki.
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- Researcher Joonas Munther, Finnish Environment Institute, firstname.lastname@syke.fi
Baltic Sea calculator
With the calculator developed by the Finnish Environment Institute and the Natural Resources Institute Finland, you can determine the impacts of your consumption habits on nutrient pollution in the Baltic Sea.
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- Researcher Joonas Munther, Finnish Environment Institute (Syke), firstname.lastname@syke.fi
The Climate Diet
The Climate Diet – developed by the Finnish Environmental Institute – helps you find out your carbon footprint and how to make it smaller. Calculate your carbon footprint and start a climate diet!
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- email: ilmastotohtori@syke.fi
National Emissions Database CO2data
The National Emissions Database provides impartial information on the climate impacts of construction products, processes, and systems used in Finland. The service enables a comparable assessment of the climate impacts of building and infrastructure construction. Managed by the Finnish Environment Institute, the service is free and open to everyone.
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Assessment of the climate impacts of a digital service
An assessment method and a simple calculator was developed for assessing the climate impacts of digital or digitized services. The project was implemented by KPMG Oy Ab, LUT University and the Finnish Environment Institute.
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- Senior research scientist Jáchym Judl, Finnish Environment Institute (Syke), firstname.lastname@syke.fi
Alternative mobility calculator KULKURI
With the KULKURI calculator developed by the Finnish Environment Institute, anyone can easily calculate the costs of transport without owning a car. The tool also calculates climate emissions produced by different transport options.
Download the KULKURI calculator to your computer here, the zip file contains both Finnish and English xlsm files for the calculator.
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- Senior research scientist Jáchym Judl, Finnish Environment Institute (Syke), firstname.lastname@syke.fi
Calculator for estimating the climate effects of timber use
Use this calculator to illustrate the development of carbon stock in forests over time and the related climate effects. With the calculator you can estimate what effects the harvesting of forest residue and stemwood has on forest carbon stocks. The calculator helps take the carbon sink effect of forests into account when assessing the sustainability of bioeconomy. The calculator was realized with funding from the EU Life Canemure Project and the Maj and Tor Nessling Foundation.
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- Development manager Sampo Soimakallio, Finnish Environment Institute (Syke), firstname.lastname@syke.fi
Rapu - demolition material and construction waste report
The Rapu information system is intended for the establishing and updating of demolition material and construction waste reports in accordance with the Building Act, as well as for the processing of the estimate and realization forms prepared for the reports. The service is maintained by the Finnish Environment Institute (Syke).
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- email: rapu-tuki@syke.fi
Rosgis
Help the researchers — report your litter observations! Rosgis is a service by the Finnish Environment Institute that allows you to report litter in the environment. The observations help researchers determine the origin of the waste and block its pathways into nature.
Water footprint calculator
You can use this calculator developed by the Finnish Environment Institute to work out your water footprint. The calculator can be used to examine what your water consumption consists of and estimate which share of it is direct water use and which is included in the products and services you buy.
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- Group manager Hannu Savolainen, Finnish Environment Institute (Syke), firstname.lastname@syke.fi
Zonation – A tool for biodiversity conservation and land use planning
The Zonation software, developed at the University of Helsinki, can be used to comprehensively utilise information on the occurrence of species and habitats, and to combine this with data on threats to the area's nature and the costs of conservation measures.
The software is freely available on GitHub. Users have access to a user manual and training materials that come with the software. Zonation is developed by researchers from the Finnish Museum of Natural History and the Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki. The work has been primarily funded by the Kone Foundation.
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- Coordinator Ninni Mikkonen, Finnish Environment Institute (Syke), firstname.lastname@syke.fi