The aim of the committee is to develop a usable and acceptable method for identifying forest areas important for biodiversity and to produce openly available map with this method. Our objective is to...

Forest patch on a flark fen © Aarno Torvinen In METSO forest biodiversity programme a conservation planning software Zonation has been used for better decision-making while enabling c...

Finland is one of the top countries in overconsumption. Our unsustainable lifestyle accelerates biodiversity loss and climate change – two of the most pressing environmental crises of our time. Along ......

Boreal forests of the Barents Region stretch through Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, who are all Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Under the CBD, Aichi Biodiversity Targ...

Coastal wetlands are important for sequestering carbon. They cover globally only 0.2 % of the ocean surface but contribute 50% of the total amount of carbon buried in marine sediments. Despite their ...

The Finnish Environment Institute SYKE, together with a wide range of experts, is preparing a proposal for a new habitat monitoring system. If implemented, monitoring would significantly improve the ...

Coordinator   Contact information Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Digital services Spatial data management Latoka...

e-shape is a unique initiative that brings together decades of public investment in Earth Observation and in cloud capabilities into services for the decision-makers, the citizens, the industry and t...

MAIA aims to promote the mainstreaming of natural capital accounting in EU Member States and Norway. In MAIA, we use the United Nations System of Environmental Economic Accounting – Ecosystem Account...

Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) and Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) report to Statistics Finland for provisioning of various material, environmental and ecosystem accounts in Finland....

Researcher M.Sc. Sustainability science, University of Helsinki Doctoral candidate, University of Helsinki   Contact information E-mail: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Te......

Background The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 ”Bringing nature back into our lives” includes several ambitious targets for protecting biodiversity and restoring habitats. For this project, th...

Testing five antifouling paints for recreational craft showed that the paint choices may significantly impact the spread of invasive species. Antifouling paints were tested as part of the EU-funded CO......

Senior researcher, development manager PhD, ecology and evolutionary biology, University of Helsinki Contact information E-mail: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Phone: 0295 251 7......

Photo: Jussi Tiira Researcher, MSc (Environmental change and policy) E-mail: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Tel: +358 29 525 1846  Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Societ......

Snow_cci project focuses on generation of homogeneous multi-sensor time series for the main parameters of global snow cover focusing on snow extent and snow water equivalent. To accomplish this, reli...

Research professor,  PhD (Limnology) Contact information email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Phone +358 295 251 118 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Nature solut......

The main objective of the SnowPEx project is to perform the intercomparison and validation of publicly available global/regional remotely sensed snow products (Snow Cover Extent, Snow Water Equivalen...

The BARIMS project inventories key areas for biodiversity in the Barents region, or Northern Norway and Finnish and Swedish Lapland. The project also seeks ways of safeguarding the nature values and ...

Research topics We focus on the accessibility to green and water areas within suburbs and their socio-economic variation between suburbs, as well as their role in supporting wellbeing....