Project IDEALE is an Academy of Finland fellowship project lead by Dr. Paula Kivimaa, Research Professor in Climate and Society, in SYKE’s Climate Change Programme. (Decision numbers 322667 and ...

Objectives Clean Energy System Transition (REPower-CEST) project has three main objectives: To create a comprehensive view of the solutions, impacts, implementation challenges and oppor...

The feeling of security can be shaken easily. For example, during last few weeks, the rapid flow of refugees and the management of the Eastern border of Finland have increased uncertainty. On the eve ......

Researcher Doctoral Researcher (Social and Public Policy, University of Jyväskylä) Contact Information Email address: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Phone number: +358 295 251 03......

An international seminar entitled Policy implications of Arctic cross-border climate change impacts was held on May this year. The main emphasis was to explore how climate change impacts in the Arctic......

Senior specialist Contact information Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Tel.  +358 295 251 235 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Climate solutions Regions and mu......

Communication specialist Contact information Firstname.lastname@syke.fi Tel. +358 295 525 2293 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Communication and marketing Communica......

Researcher Doctoral researcher (Doctoral Programme in Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences), University of Helsinki MSc (Climate Change), University of Copenhagen Contact details ......

New research reveals a gap between climate action and communication in municipalities. With limited resources, climate communication is mostly done by those doing climate work, not communication exper......

Project background  In order to mitigate climate change, Finland aims to be carbon neutral in 2035. The land use sector is both a significant carbon sink and a source of CO2 emissions....

According to calculations by the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), municipalities’ total climate emissions decreased by 3.1 per cent in 2021 from the previous year. Emissions decreased in nearly a......

We must adapt to climate change, and not only to the biophysical changes that occur within the borders of Finland, but to a whole range of possible cross-border societal impacts that are transmitted t......

Regional climate work supports and brings together local actors in the implementation of practical climate action. The Finnish Environment Institute together with the Natural Resources Institute Finla......

A fresh review study shows that increased felling reduces carbon sequestered in forests significantly in both boreal and temperate regions. It is often argued that although increased harvesting does r......

The Climateguide.fi website maintained by the Finnish Meteorological Institute, the Finnish Environment Institute, and the Natural Resources Institute Finland compiles research-based information on cl......

According to the calculations by the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), municipalities’ total climate emissions decreased by 8.7% in 2020 from the previous year....

Scientific publications Ahti Lepistö, Antti Räike, Tapani Sallantaus, Leena Finér (2021), Increases in organic carbon and nitrogen concentrations in boreal forested catchments — Change...

On Thursday 18 November 2021 the Päiviö Hetemäki Fund awarded Research Professor Timothy Carter from the Finnish Environment Institute SYKE a commendation for his outstanding work advancing the topic ......

Researched information on climate change should be used to plan fair and efficient climate policy, may that be regionally, nationally, or globally. This researched information can be found on Finnish ......

Increasing consumer interest in vegetables and sustainable food will lead to a need to expand greenhouse cultivation. Peat is a common growing media in greenhouse cultivation; however, it is c...