The thesis concerns three studies on sequential decision-making in energy economics. In such problems, the optimal policy considers the immediate reward associated with an action and the value of the ......

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 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) has published its third responsibility report on the impact of its own operations on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. In addition to the five UN Sustain......

The feeling of security can be shaken easily. For example, during last few weeks, the rapid flow of refugees and the management of the Eastern border of Finland have increased uncertainty. On the eve ......

A cognitive understanding of climate change is different from an embodied, physical, and emotional one. Seeing images or videos of melting ice is not as powerful as touching the ice and feeling it mel......

Senior specialist Contact information Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Tel.  +358 295 251 235 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Climate solutions Regions and mu......

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......

Group manager Contact information E-mail: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Tel. +358 295 251 814 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Research infrastructure Marine analytics ......

Researcher M.Sc. (Geology) Email: milja.raisanen@syke.fi Phone: +358 29 5252 085 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Circular economy solutions Policy and consumption Latokart......

It is time to start paying attention to the EU Environmental Footprint as it has a potential of becoming the only acceptable way to substantiate environmental claims of products and services on the co......

Changes are needed in water management solutions. New technologies in the treatment of wastewater and sewage sludge would enable more efficient and more contaminant-free nutrient recovery, which would......

  Final HAZBREF Stakeholder Conference  The final conference was arranged as a webinar on 4 of June 2020. The webinar Agenda:   HAZBREF Webinar Final ...

Doctoral dissertation examines livestock breeding from the perspective of social science. Breeding goals impact cattle, dairy farmers, and the relations between farmers and cows. Livestock breeding cu......

The Finnish Environment Institute SYKE succeeded in the September 2021 call of the Academy of Finland. The Academy grants 1.2 million euros to four SYKE projects that address many current topics in so......

The funding of projects under the Finnish recovery and resilience plan is only possible if the projects comply with the “Do No Significant Harm” principle. The project shall not for example weaken the......

There is a clear need to increase the knowledge of the industrial sources of hazardous chemicals and to apply measures to reduce their use and emissions to the environment. Project HAZBREF proposes a ......

It is time to move beyond solving environmental problems one by one, to systemic societal sustainability transformations. This is the message of the SYKE Policy Brief published today. Sustainability t......

Addressing global sustainability challenges, such as climate change and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), requires changes in innovation policy. Hence, it is necessary to promo...

SusHydro project creates interdisciplinary guidelines for sustainable governance of existing hydropower. It aims to integrate the ecological, economic, and social pillars of sustainability in a novel...

SYKE’s Professors Eeva Primmer and Mikael Hildén consider Finland’s role in the EU Forest Strategy in their Ratkaisuja blog: Has Finland taken leadership, or has the lobbying resulted in fragmentation......