The GOVAQUA team at the kick off meeting in Helsinki March 2023. © GOVAQUA Project GOVAQUA-project identifies, assesses, develops and validates innovative governance instruments a...

This work package houses the six GOVAQUA living labs, where a representative and complementary set of innovative water governance approaches and instruments will be further developed, piloted, c...

Transition to sustainable water governance (Work Package 1) This work package defines, assesses and advances the transition towards more sustainable water governance in Europe, at multiple level...

Senior Researcher Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Tel. 295 251 128   Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Climate solutions Air pollution Visiting add......

Background In Finland, groundwater comprises 65 % of the household water distributed by waterworks. Groundwater is typically covered only with thin soil layers; this enables the migration of har...

The aim of the project is to assess the impacts of the European Commission's Green Claims initiative in Finland and to support the working group in the field of green claims. The project will produce...

Group manager Contact information TkT, KTM, MMM firstname.lastname@syke.fi Tel: +358 29 525 1065 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Societal change Agency Lat......

The strategy of the Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) for 2021–2025 consists of our vision, mission statement, values and objectives that guide all our activities. Vision S...

Finnish Environment Institute’s (Syke) management system consists of the rules that guide Syke’s activities as well as Syke’s own policies, practices and guidelines. The purpose of the management sys...

PlastLIFE  SIP – Re-thinking plastics in a sustainable circular economy project promotes the implementation of the Plastics Roadmap for Finland (PRfF) during seven years, 2023-2029. The ultimate...

UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (look bigger picture ). The operations of the Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) are directly or indirectly related to most of the UN’s Sustainable D...

The project tackles littering and improves waste management in rural villages in North Karelia, Finland, and the Karelian Republic, Russia. We encourage and support local residents, authorities and c...

Working with the built environment information system.   Currently, zoning data is not comprehensively and nationally available in Finland to guide the use and development of ar...

Approximately one million tons of solid matter, known as sewage sludge, is separated from wastewater annually in Finnish wastewater treatment plants. 90 % of the nutrient rich sludge is used in agric...

© Photo: Riku Lumiaro Incomplete combustion of organic fuels results in emission of light-absorbing carbon (LAC) particles that contain both black carbon (BC), which has the stronges...

The “demand side” of the market, actions by citizens as consumers and producers of to low carbon energy now plays an increasing role in the decarbonization of energy and built environment that are th...

Objectives and targets of Finnish Environment Institute’s (Syke) environmental programme 2022–2025 Mitigation of adverse environmental impacts caused by Syke’s activities We will reduce...

  FPCUP EO-Crowd – Publication and Crowdsourcing Analysis of Phenomena of Interest in EO Products FPCUP EO-Crowd project aims at supporting innovation in businesses and start-ups by ...

Researcher Contact information Email: annika.johansson@syke.fi Tel: +358 29 525 2006 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Climate solutions Sustainability Latoka......

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is an established method to simultaneously quantify multiple environmental impacts arising from the whole value chain including all processes related to the life cycle of ...