Peat in Finland
[4] Finland is set to receive over €465 million from the EU's Just Transition Fund (JTF), representing about 24% of its Cohesion Policy allocation for 2021-2027.
This funding is intended to support Finland's objective of attaining climate neutrality by 2035 in a socially equitable manner.
The JTF will focus its investments on 14 regions affected by the transition away from peat, aiming to halve peat-based energy consumption by 2030.
Finland's environmental administration has a new project studying water pollution from the peat collection areas.
[15] The accidental large water emission from peat collection area in 1981 in Lestijärvi was an environmental wakeup.
[17] In 2012 those responsible include several municipal energy companies e.g. Helsinki, Vantaa, Oulu, Rauma, Seinäjoki, Vaasa and Lahti.
The official, environmental counsellor Antti Ylitalo, had written public appeals to protect endangered natural bogs (moss, moor).
[citation needed] In the summer 2010, one researcher specialist from VTT expressed his/her critics about the reliability of the electricity market report for the parliament.
This special researcher claims that he acted privately and revealed in general the contradictions of the electricity market report.
According to the scientist the leaders of VTT tried to prevent them to express in public dissentient opinions about the peat energy tax.
The executive board of the IPS consists of both university and company directors and is elected by an annual assembly of national member associations.
Mr. Kari Larjava, e.g. VTT expert in biogas and head of Ms. Helynen, did not know IPS but considered its membership of no relevant problem in regard to commitments.
According to Olli Mäenpää, Professor of Administration Law at Helsinki University, the new principles of VTT are in conflict with Finnish constitutional freedom to express one's opinions.
"In practice the attempts to restrict the basic human rights will label these organizations with a negative reputation that is strongly disapproved in public."
The ability to question facts and assumptions and the evaluation of report argumentations are cornerstones of scientific discoveries, innovative ideas and sustainable development of society including its politics.
[28] The definition is from the report: Patrick Crill (USA), Ken Hargreaves (UK) and Mr. Atte Korhola (FIN) Turpeen asema Suomen kasvihuonekaasutaseissa (2000) ordered by KTM.
For example, environment experts and university academics Mr. Raimo Heikkilä (Oulu), Mr. Tapio Lindholm (Helsinki) and Mr. Heikki Simola (Joensuu) wrote an opponent review in 2007.
For the greenhouse gas inventories the natural peat lands are basically neutral since storage of carbon equals release of methane.
The agricultural land use will never restore the carbon permanently in the ecosystem equal to the original peat layers.
Ten years later, they declined to do so again but also refused to classify it as biomass because its emissions are on par with fossil fuels.
Digging ditches in peatland fields in Finland created 6 million tons of CO2 emissions annually.
digging ditches in forest lands in Finland results in 7 million tons of CO2 emission annually.
According to senior lecturer Heikki Simola (University of East Finland) the carbon load from the ditches of bogs is 6000 tonnes pro person annually.
The premium tariff is designed to directly counter the effect of the European Union’s emissions trading scheme.
"[39] In April 2022 Neova said it would restart cutting for peat energy in Finland, due to the reduction in wood imports from Russia.
