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Hydropower production strategies: impacts on emissions and windfall profits
Project | Published: 2013-04-15

Project description In this project we utilize a long-run oriented Real-Time Price based simulation model to analyze the strategic behavior of hydropower producers in the Nordic electricity mark...

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Life Cycle Assessment of the Finnish farmed rainbow trout: update of the 2002 study
Project | Published: 2013-04-17

Project description The life cycle environmental impacts of the Finnish farmed rainbow trout were assessed by SYKE and FGFRI in a project that ended in 2002. An average farming method was co...

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Measurement, Monitoring and Environmental Assessment (MMEA) Research Programme WP2: Management Systems for Environmental Efficiency (MSEE)
Project | Published: 2013-04-23

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...

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The importance of building materials in the environmental impacts of construction
Project | Published: 2013-04-02

Project description The main objective of the project is to establish a general view of environmental impacts caused by building materials during their whole life cycle. Also the importan...

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Baltic Environment, Food and Health: From Habits To Awareness (FOODWEB)
Project | Published: 2013-04-22

Objectives The main objectives of the FOODWEB project are to demonstrate the two-way relationship between people, food quality and the environment: how the environment affects to ...

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Towards better recovery of waste resources
Press release | Published: 2013-01-15

Press release by SYKE, VTT, Aalto University and Lappeenranta University of Technology ......

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Harmful substances from Talvivaara have accumulated in the nearest lakes
Press release | Published: 2012-11-28

The Finnish Environment Institute SYKE has analysed the latest samples taken from nearby waters. In rivers close to Talvivaara, concentrations of harmful substances have lowered considerably, but ......

Current > Press releases > Harmful substances from Talvivaara have accumulated in the nearest lakes

Concentrations of harmful metals have lowered in Talvivaara waters, but in places remain harmful to aquatic organisms
Press release | Published: 2012-11-19

During the past week, concentrations of hazardous substances in the River Lumijoki, and the Salmisenpuro streamlet in the immediate vicinity of Talvivaara, have become considerably lower, but s......

Current > Press releases > Concentrations of harmful metals have lowered in Talvivaara waters, but in places remain harmful to aquatic organisms

Metal levels in River Lumijoki at Talvivaara poisonous to organisms
Press release | Published: 2012-11-13

The Finnish Environment Institute SYKE has analysed in its laboratory the latest samples from the waters around Talvivaara, obtained on Sunday. These observations confirm SYKE’s ear......

Current > Press releases > Metal levels in River Lumijoki at Talvivaara poisonous to organisms

Doctoral dissertation: The causes of environmental problems are often disregarded by the media
Press release | Published: 2012-11-12

Photo: Noora Lehtimäki “Debate on the most critical problem facing......

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Doctoral dissertation: Public procurers could use environmental criteria much more effectively
Press release | Published: 2012-10-02

Katriina Alhola (M.Sc. in Economics, M.Sc. in Agriculture a......

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