Climate-Smart Carbon Cycle

The land-use sector plays an important role in mitigating climate change and in halting the deterioration of the aquatic environment resulting from primary production. The programme’s challenge is to overcome the global climate crisis and its impact on ecosystems.

HoliSoils synthesis reports for policy makers, practitioners, experts, the forest sector, educators, and the wider public

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10.11.2025
Climate
Soil
Forests and forestry

Long-term nitrogen fertilization boosts soil carbon retention in Finnish boreal forest

News
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27.10.2025
Climate
Soil

Doctoral dissertation: No-till farming benefits the environment, but climate impact remain small

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16.10.2025
Climate
Soil
Agriculture

PaluWise project launches to advance solutions for productive use of rewetted degraded peatlands

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10.6.2025
Climate
Soil
Forests and forestry

AGCLIMATE project develops solutions to measure and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural lands

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9.5.2025

Arctic plants react unexpectedly to climate change, study says

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30.4.2025
Climate
Biodiversity
Environment

Summer 2024 in Lapland was the warmest in 2,000 years

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28.4.2025
Climate
Environment

IKEA visits continuous cover forestry experiment sites

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7.2.2025
Climate
Forests and forestry
Biodiversity

For World Wetlands Day: Launch of the most comprehensive and up to date European Wetland Map

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2.2.2025

The soil monitoring law prepared by the EU must take into account the specific characteristics of forest soils

Blog post
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Raisa Mäkipää, Aleksi Lehtonen
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11.11.2024
Climate
Soil
Forests and forestry

Policy Brief: six ways to strengthen the acceptance of wind power

News
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28.10.2024
Climate
Biodiversity
Environment

Research: Price and income are no barrier to adopting environmentally friendly and nutritionally adequate diets

News
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25.6.2024
Wellbeing and health
Climate
Consumption

Understanding climate warming impacts on carbon release from the tundra

News
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18.4.2024
Climate

Survey: The farther wind turbines are, the better they are accepted – groups of vacation homes challenging in wind farm siting decisions

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1.2.2024
Energy
Climate
Biodiversity

Review: Several groups of birds and mammals avoid wind turbines

News
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18.12.2023
Energy
Climate
Biodiversity

First Spatial Dataset on Peatlands Covers Mires and Drained Peatlands throughout Finland

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23.11.2023
Climate
Soil
Agriculture

Almost the same amount of carbon is sequestered in mineral soil and stems in heath forests

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6.11.2023
Climate
Soil
Forests and forestry

Cultivation of grass significantly reduces nitrogen leaching from cultivated peatlands

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6.11.2023
Climate
Soil
Agriculture

Scenario: The transition to continuous cover forestry on fertile and drained peatland forests would produce climate benefits for Finland in comparison to even-aged forestry, even if the impact of selection harvesting on soil emission is low

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15.10.2023
Climate
Soil
Forests and forestry

Forest conservation is part of climate action in towns and cities – the emission offset potential of land use in the Hepokorvenkallio building project in Espoo has been assessed

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4.10.2023
Climate
Forests and forestry

The amount of imported products and meat in the Finnish diet has the most significant impact on global biodiversity loss

News
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13.9.2023
Climate
Food
Environment

A new international project tackles wastewater issues around the Baltic Sea

News
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21.8.2023
Water systems
Environment

Forest soil can mitigate or accelerate climate change - Luke-led research project examines soil properties and processes in detail

News
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10.5.2023
Climate
Soil
Forests and forestry

Moss-covered forest ditches combat climate change

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2.5.2023
Climate
Forests and forestry
Environment