Climate change links

General information on climate change and what you can do

• The Climate Change Communications Programme (Ministry of Employment and the Economy)

Climate Calculator is a  web application designed to help businesses and organisers of mass events to measure carbon dioxide emissions and find ways of reducing them:

• Climate Calculator, English preview (Helsinki University of Technology - Lifelong Learning Institute Dipoli, WWF Finland and Motiva Oy)

Information on Motiva's web site about energy conservation, energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy sources:

• Motiva

Information on climate and climate

• Climate change (Finnish Environment Institute)
• Research>Climate Change (Finnish Meteorological Institute)

FINESSI is an open access web tool for exploring the impacts of climate change in Finland in the 21st century. The impacts are presented in the form of maps and the future climate is represented by scenarios that are based on output from global climate models. FINESSI may be of use, for example, to environmental authorities, town planners and industry. The pilot version of FINESSI is in English, but Finnish and Swedish versions will be added later.

• Finessi Web Tool (Finnish Environment Institute)

Adaptation

• Finland's National Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change (pdf, 11 Mb, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry)
• Assessing the adaptive capacity of the Finnish environment and society under a changing climate (FINADAPT) (Finnish Environment Institute)
• Environmental cluster research projects of the phase 2006-2009 > Curbing climate change and adaptation to the climate change (Ministry of the Environment)

Climate Change and Biodiversity

• Climate Change and Biodiversity (LUMONET, the Finnish Clearing-House Mechanism of the Convention on Biological Diversity)

General climate change strategies 

• National Climate and Energy Strategy (Ministry of Employment and the Economy)
• Climate Strategy for Helsinki Metropolitan Area 2030 (YTV - Helsinki Metropolitan Area Council)

Information on emissions and emissions trading

• Greenhouse gases (Statistics Finland)
• Transport and environment (Ministry of Transport and Communications)
• Air traffic and the climate (Ministry of Transport and Communications, Finnish Civil Aviation Authority, Finnair Oyj, Blue 1 Oy, Air Finland Oy and Finavia)

LIPASTO is a calculation system for traffic exhaust emissions and energy consumption in Finland. The web site introduces the system with its submodels and the results. In addition, the emission model TYKO for machinery  and unit emission pages will be presented.

• Lipasto (Technical Research Centre of Finland, VTT)
• Emissions trading and the decision on allocating emission (Ministry of Employment and the Economy)
• Emissions trading (Energy Market Authority)