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Sustainable green transition in Barents region

  • Duration: 2023 - 2025
  • Status: Ongoing

The aim of the project is to support socio-ecological sustainability of the green transition in the Barents region.

Project management
Timo Jouttijärvi
Project team
Kaj Forsius, Emmi Vähä, Aino Lipsanen, Anna Kuhmonen, Anna Ott, Peter Kullberg
Financiers
Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
Partners
Ministry of the Environment Finland
Subject area
International, Nature

Green transition creates new pressures to land use in the Barents region. The project aims to promote biodiversity conversation and knowledge to support sustainable green transition. 

The work is divided to 3 work packages:

  • Work package 1: Socio-ecological sustainability in the greent transistion in the Barents region.
  • Work package 2: Capacity building on battery value chain operations and activities between the Nordic countries – Pre-study.
  • Work package 3: Nature conservation and green transition.

The project will organize several workshops, site visits and a final seminar for invited Nordic stakeholders. The results will be published in 2025.

The project is funded by Finnish Ministry for foreign affairs (IBA-fund).

More information:

Project coordinator Timo Jouttijärvi

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