The challenges posed by climate change, biodiversity loss and harmful land-use are deeply interconnected. The overall objective of the project is to provide top-class spatially explicit information on the potential for reaching carbon-neutrality in boreal landscapes and regions, considering sustainability issues. Advanced modelling and remote sensing techniques are developed and utilized. Both anthropogenic and land-use based greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are evaluated. Data from top-class research sites is used. The policy-relevant aim is to provide detailed spatial, scenario-based information at different scales for key end-users (e.g. communities, provinces, ministries). This information can be used for e.g. regional land-use and energy strategy planning/management, and sustainability assessment. The project is carried out by a multidisciplinary team from the Finnish Environment Institute, Finnish Meteorological Institute and the universities of Helsinki and Eastern Finland.

The overall aim of this research project is to make new discoveries through analyzing existing data. We will investigate the atmosphere from synoptic and seasonal scale to microscale and will perform signal characterization of the recent Martian atmospheric observations. The analysis will be combined with extensive atmospheric modeling using state-of-the-art Martian atmospheric physics and meteorological models. Currently scientific analysis of the wealth of Martian atmospheric observations by various Mars missions is lagging behind. This research project is clearly needed. Mars is a highly interesting planet due to the fact that Mars and the Earth are sister planets - they have nearly similar atmospheric dynamics. Our sustainable development objective is that by investigating Mars and its atmosphere we can learn also about the Earth.