Project description This project promotes construction of sustainable public buildings by increasing knowledge on how to achieve both low carbon footprint (CF) and resource-efficiency targets in...

JUST FOOD explores and develops means for making the transition to a healthy and climate-smart food system just, sustainable, and socially acceptable. The existing sustainability transition re...

Researcher   MSc (Geography) Doctoral Researcher (University of Helsinki, Doctoral Programme in Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences) Email: firstname.lastname@s......

Kuva: Kai Widell / SYKE High quality tap water Finland has pure and healthy tap water, which is available almost anywhere free of charge. In Finnish we call it "kraanavesi" or "...

The European Commission has granted 9.1 million euros to Finland to help mitigate climate change. The ‘Towards Carbon Neutral Municipalities’ (CANEMURE) project, which has been approved for the Life ......

The headquarters of the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) is moving on 19th November 2018 from the Töölö borough of Helsinki to the University of Helsinki’s Viikki campus (street address: Latokarta......

Coordinator Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Tel.: +358 29 525 1942 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Climate solutions Regions and municipalities Address: Latokartanonkaa......

Our activities are organised into projects that involve producing information for decision-making needs and ensuring sustainainability of the circular economy. We develop practical solutions that are...

Development Manager  PhD (Environmental Science and Policy) Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi   Tel.  +358(0)295251457 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke......

Researcher, MSc. (Environmental Management and Policy)      Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi  Tel.  +358(0)295251845 Finnish Enviro......

Results Results of the project are summarized in a conference paper presented in the 17th European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and production. Conference article: Educati...

The huge potential of energy saving, energy efficiency and renewable energy sources is already recognized. The benefits are various, such as decreased greenhouse gas emissions, a boost in the domesti...

The huge potential of energy saving, energy efficiency and renewable energy sources is already recognized. The benefits are various, such as decreased greenhouse gas emissions, a boost in the domesti...

Objectives The objective of this project is to produce increased understanding about the concepts and foundations for future (circular) and green economy that secures the maintenance of the full...

Sixteen municipalities involved in the Towards Carbon-Neutral Municipalities (Canemu, HINKU in Finnish) project reduced their greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 19% between 2007 and 2012. The g......

Introduction The Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) had for several years looked for possibilities for having its office premises and laboratories in the same place, rather than spread ove...

  Municipalities as pioneers in climate change mitigation The Carbon Neutral Municipalities project (Hinku project) brings municipalities, businesses, citizens and experts togeth...

Project description The main goal was to design and validate a new integrated concept of biowaste-to-energy based on algae and biogas production. The aim was to develop a process requirin...

Project description Purpose of this project is to evaluate existing regional eco-efficiency tools, and explore the posibility to develop new and more multipurpose assessment tools. First s...

Project description The main research questions of WP2 are: 1) what makes the environmental efficiency (EE) of a product/process/service and 2) how EE is measured and indicated. To answer...