The seminar "Sustainability experimentation: interplay between grassroots and institutions", opened by Professor Stephen Zavestoski, and followed by presentations on experiments from a range of angles......

Project TRIPOD is a consortium project led by Aalto University, with SYKE and the Consumer Society Research Centre (CSRC) of the University of Helsinki as partners. TRIPOD will empirically ...

Dr Paula Kivimaa, a senior researcher at the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), was awarded the best paper prize at the 5th International Conference on Sustainability Transitions....

Agricultural production needs to become sustainable. Currently prevalent agricultural practices cause not only significant environmental impacts but are in need of change in order to guarantee adequa...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has approved the second part of its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), titled Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, at the IPCC ......

      ICP IM sites large  (PDF) The following countries have continued data submission to the ICP IM data base during the period 2016–2020: Austria,...

The project “Ecosystem services and human health” is jointly carried out by the Finnish Forest Research Institute and the Finnish Environment Institute during the years 2013–2014. The aim of this pro...

Expert institutes collect and report primary data to the National Focal Point (NFP). They are responsible for data quality. The NFP, with or without the help of expert institutes,...

Review of activities Meetings Data Scientific work in priority topics Activies and tasks planned for 2020 -2021 Review of the ICP IM activities from June1 ...

Links to Recent publications Forsius, M., Posch, M., Holmberg, M., Vuorenmaa, J., Kleemola, S., Augustaitis, A., Beudert, B., Bochenek, W., Clarke, N., de Wit, H., Dirnböck, T., Frey, J., Grandi...

Aims and focus The ENSCA project has analysed institutionalisation of the EU Water Framework Directive in Finland by identifying the hybrid actor-networks through which a...

Background and Objectives Energy systems are largely characterised by path dependence. Decisions taken in the past limit the options available today. Fuel choices, conversion technologies and di...

Welcome to the A-LA-CARTE home page A-LA-CARTE (Assessing limits of adaptation to climate change and opportunities for resilience to be enhanced) was a four-year collaborative research pr...

  The objective of ENJUSTESS is to explore the interconnections of environmental justice and ecosystem services with a novel focus on urban aquatic environments – or "blue infrastructure" –...

About the Green infra project The changes in land use practices have led to the degradation of ecosystems, habitat fragmentation, and consequently the loss of biodiversity and associated ecos...

The KnowSeas project will develop a comprehensive scientific knowledge base and practical guidance for the application of the Ecosystem Approach to the sustainable development of Europe's reg...

About the project Biodiversity and its effective management are inextricably related to scale. The main pressures on Europe’s terrestrial biodiversity (i.e. habitat loss and fragmentation, distu...

Project description Today's forestry is challenged by demands relating to global, regional, and local as well as public, institutional, and private perspectives. In upcoming decades, societ...

Current Next Trilateral Estonian-Finnish-Russian Gulf of Finland Forum From small scales to large scales –The Gulf of Finland Science Days 2017. Read more   Gulf of Finl...

The Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) takes responsibility for the environmental impacts of its own acitivities. SYKE also wants to set example on measures in reducing the environmental burden ...