EurAqua Webinar: Water challenges in the European Green Deal
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Event starts: 2020-06-11
Within the context of the European Green Deal, EurAqua is organizing a webinar with the focus on nature-based solutions to increase climate resilience to hydrological extremes and to protect, conserve......
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Life in the fast lane: Computer vision and machine learning to unveil biodiversity dynamics and ecosystem responses in the planktonic realm - FASTVISION
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Published: 2020-06-04
Plankton community ecology and ecosystem research is currently greatly hampered by the bottleneck of acquiring species-level information from the communities due to the slow analysis process with tra...
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Life in the fast lane: Computer vision and machine learning to unveil biodiversity dynamics and ecosystem responses in the planktonic realm - FASTVISION
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Environmental footprint method to support the assessment of climate impacts of public procurements
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Published: 2020-04-17
The Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) method developed by European Commission is used to assess the environmental impact of products throughout their life cycles. A new study by the Finnish Envir......
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Environmental footprint method to support the assessment of climate impacts of public procurements
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Environmental footprint method to support the assessment of climate impacts of public procurements
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Eeva Furman: The unbearable slowness of sustainability
2020-04-02
Open science and collaboration have played an important role when combatting the Covid-19. A vaccine would be a major advancement in research, but from the perspective of sustainable development, othe......
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Doctoral dissertation: Climate and health impacts of residential wood combustion in Finland
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Published: 2020-02-28
According to the dissertation by Mikko Savolahti, a researcher at the Finnish Environment Institute, residential wood combustion causes 200 premature deaths in Finland each year. In addition, resident......
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Doctoral dissertation: Global analyses of drivers of water scarcity indicators in transboundary river basins
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Published: 2020-02-17
Future water scarcity in transboundary river will intensify in basins which are already under stress and is mostly a local problem, reports a new doctoral dissertation. Hafsa Munia, researcher of the ......
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New emissions calculation system for all Finnish municipalities – an average emissions reduction of 15 per cent since 2005
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Published: 2020-02-10
Climate emissions have decreased in nearly all Finnish municipalities since 2005. The average decrease is 15 per cent. The reduction in municipal emissions has been driven by the decline in electricit......
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New emissions calculation system for all Finnish municipalities – an average emissions reduction of 15 per cent since 2005
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Black carbon in the Arctic and significance compared to dust sources (IBA-FIN-BCDUST)
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Published: 2020-01-30
The IBA-project aims to assess black carbon (BC) in the Arctic and significance compared to dust sources for their climate impacts. Special focus is on Finland, Iceland and Russia including cryo...
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Black carbon in the Arctic and significance compared to dust sources (IBA-FIN-BCDUST)
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Black Carbon Footprint
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Published: 2020-01-29
The aim of the project is to create a new research-oriented business ecosystem covering actors from different areas of companies, research and authorities to create new in-depth knowledge ab...
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CAScading Climate risks: towards ADaptive and resilient European Societies (CASCADES)
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Published: 2019-09-13
Climate change amplifies existing risks and vulnerabilities in a globalised world. New risks are also emerging from complex cross-sectoral and multi-dimensi...
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CAScading Climate risks: towards ADaptive and resilient European Societies (CASCADES)
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Independent Group of Scientists: The state of global sustainable development is serious, solutions exist
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Published: 2019-09-11
The Independent Group of Scientists appointed by the UN has assessed the state of global sustainable development as worrying. Although positive developments can be found in the world, certain issues m......
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Towards Eco-Welfare State: Orchestrating for Systemic Impact (ORSI)
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Published: 2019-08-16
The ORSI research project develops steering practices that enable the transformation to a Finnish eco-welfare state with ecologically effective and societally legitimate measures.
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Report: Shift to climate-friendly diet requires a systemic change
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Published: 2019-08-21
The climate impacts of diet can be reduced by 30 to 40 per cent by changing our diets and taking care of the carbon reserve in arable land. According to the final report of the FoodMinimum project, sh......
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IDEALE
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Published: 2019-08-12
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IDEALE is an Academy of Finland fellowship project lead by Dr. Paula Kivimaa, Research Professor in Climate and Society, in SYKE’s Climate Change Programme. (Decision numbers 322667 and ...
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Director General Lea Kauppi selected as one of the top experts for the Horizon Europe
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Published: 2019-07-31
Director General, Professor Lea Kauppi from Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) has been nominated as a member of the Mission Board for Healthy Oceans, Seas, Coastal and Inland Waters for the Horizon......
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Warming in the Baltic Sea area increases blue-green algae blooms
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Published: 2019-07-25
Since 1990, the Baltic Sea has on average warmed by almost 2 °C, Finnish sea areas even more than that. Nutrient pollution has continued to visibly decrease on this millennium but the surface area of ......
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Problem solving in Zanzibar with the expertise of the Finnish Environment Institute
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Published: 2019-07-02
Underwater nature of Zanzibar, Tanzania, is spectacular with its coral reefs, seagrass meadows and mangrove forests. Marine life is however facing severe threats as coastal zone is affected by increas......
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Problem solving in Zanzibar with the expertise of the Finnish Environment Institute
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Towards Carbon Neutral Municipalities and Regions (CANEMURE)
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Published: 2019-06-17
Canemure, the Towards Carbon Neutral Municipalities and Regions -project implements practical measures for climate change mitigation during a six year period, from 2018 to 20...
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A warmer Arctic will have a large and complex impact to algal production
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Published: 2019-05-09
The warming of the Arctic Ocean could generally increase the primary production provided by algae living in sea ice, but the impact varies greatly between latitudes, claims a study published in the re......
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A warmer Arctic will have a large and complex impact to algal production
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With high-end climate change the same old solutions are not enough
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Published: 2019-04-29
What could a future above 2°C look like? What do we want our future to look like? The EU-funded IMPRESSIONS project found out that a more participatory and engaging scientific method can help identify......
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With high-end climate change the same old solutions are not enough
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