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The Finnish Environment Institute’s responsibility report 2022: towards a sustainability transition through research evidence The Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) published its second responsibility report on the impact of its operations on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The report also describes the Finnish Env...	2023-05-08
Transforming Europe’s food system requires coordinated action across diverse areas of EU policy Europe’s shift to a sustainable food system will involve huge changes in the way we produce and consume food. Achieving this depends on ambitious and coherent EU policies to promote and guide innovati...	2023-04-20
Why are we falling behind on the recycling targets for plastics − Muoviavain project focuses on the key questions of plastics recycling Recycling of plastics play a key role in a functioning Circular Economy of plastics. Finland is, however, falling behind on its recycling targets for plastics and today they are recycled in insufficie...	2023-04-05
Waterinfo.fi – precise and up-to-date water information now also in English The Finnish Environment Institute has published an English version of its vesi.fi web service called waterinfo.fi. It contains plenty of general information on water, latest snapshots of the hydrologi...	2023-03-22
Finnish Environment Institute granted EUR 4.1 million in EU research funding The Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) will lead one and participate in six new Horizon Europe funded projects. This success in the 2022 application round amounts up to 4.1 million euros research an...	2023-03-21
Sustainable use of water resources takes a leap to a new level – Finnish Environment Institute participates in historic UN Water Conference The UN Water Conference in New York on 22–24 March will mark World Water Day in an extraordinary way this year. The Finnish Environment Institute is closely involved in the Finnish delegation to promo...	2023-03-20
The Finnish Environment Institute is leading a project that creates a new European Science Service for Biodiversity The Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) coordinates multiple international research and innovation projects. One of them is BioAgora, a project that started in July 2022. The project is building Scie...	2023-02-01
New solutions and tools are being created for achieving nature-centered future New research and innovation project BIONEXT creates novel science-based solutions and tools for halting biodiversity loss and achieving sustainable, nature-centered future and societies.	2023-01-31
New approach for climate risk assessment supports decision-making under uncertainty A new method for climate risk assessment has been developed that improves decision-making for climate change adaptation under uncertainty. The international work, led by researchers from the Finnish E...	2023-01-18
Finnish Environment Institute gets funding for developing measurement platforms for environmental data in Joensuu The Joensuu-based mechatronics research laboratory of the Finnish Environment Institute Syke has been granted funding by the Finnish Research Infrastructure Committee of the Academy of Finland for a t...	2023-01-16
Subscribe to the Finnish Environment Institute's press releases The Finnish Environment Institute's press releases will be distributed to media and stakeholders through the Finnish News Agency´s STT Info service.	2023-01-13
EU Member States make progress in climate adaptation to boost resilience, EEA review finds EU Member States recognise the importance of adapting to impacts of heatwaves, droughts, floods, heavy precipitation and changing temperatures and of mainstreaming climate change adaptation to a wide ...	2022-12-14
Genetic methods can be used to improve the monitoring of phytoplankton biodiversity The Finnish Environment Institute has tested the possibilities of using a genetic method to support the Finnish marine phytoplankton monitoring. The eDNA method revealed previously undetected species ...	2022-11-29
Sanna Marttinen continues as Executive Director of Tulanet PhD Sanna Marttinen has been elected as the Executive Director of Tulanet, a cooperation body of Finnish government research institutes, for the term 2023–2027. Sanna Marttinen has worked as the Execu...	2022-11-22
Cooperation for the development of water monitoring continues with the Colombians In June 2022, the Hydrological Institute of Colombia received its first continuous water quality monitoring station. In September 2022, the institute's experts visited Finland on a study trip and, in ...	2022-10-19
Webinar: Effective science-policy interaction needs both clear messages and a continuous dialogue On February 3, 2022, the Finnish Environment Institute and the European Alternet network organized a webinar for 120 listeners. The needs to further develop science-policy interfaces were discussed at...	2022-10-13
The climate impacts of the Nord Stream gas leak are expected to be clearly more significant than the impacts on marine nature – the risk of chemical weapons dumped in the area will be investigated The methane leaking from the damaged Nord Stream pipelines is a powerful greenhouse gas with a significantly greater climate impact than the same amount of carbon dioxide. However, the direct impacts ...	2022-09-30
Large EU project starts: BIONEXT wants to mainstream biodiversity into policy-making A new large EU project coordinated by the Finnish Environment agency SYKE The Biodiversity Nexus - Triggering transformative change for sustainability (BIONEXT) is launching this Autumn. The project g...	2022-09-23
New study published on the interactions of microplastics and chemicals on soil arthropods A new study on the interactions of microplastics and chemicals on soil arthropods reveals that the effects are dependent on the type of microplastic and the exposed arthropod species.	2022-09-22
Mining in shallow marine areas endangers sustainability goals According to a study, mining in shallow marine areas conflicts with international conservation and sustainability goals, bringing with it great environmental risks.	2022-09-20

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