More accurate measurement methods than before provide new information about the Baltic Sea: a source of emissions may splash onto our shores.
World the seas are known carbon sinks, which has saved humanity from warming worse than the current one. However, our own home sea, the Baltic Sea, may work in the opposite way from the point of view of climate change.
The Baltic Sea not only binds carbon dioxide but also releases it. In addition, new measurement methods have revealed that methane is released especially from the coasts. Methane is a greenhouse gas about thirty times stronger than carbon dioxide.
So is the Baltic Sea as a whole a carbon sink or a source of emissions?
This will be clarified today, Wednesday, on Espa’s stage in an expert discussion starting at 3 p.m.
Participating in the discussion are a professor of Baltic Sea research, an oceanographer Alf Norkko from the University of Helsinki, docent of marine biology, university researcher, member of the Baltic Sea panel Camilla Gustafsson from the University of Helsinki and a research professor specializing in the sustainable use of the seas Markku Viitasalo From the Marine Center of the Finnish Environment Institute.
The discussion is led by HS’s environmental producer Piia Elonen.
You can come and follow the discussion on site or watch it live on HS.fi.
HS will also show the other discussions of the Helsinki Speaks event live from around 12 o’clock.
Event program:
12:00-12:30 Questions from around the world:
Rosa Meriläinen, Juhana Vartiainen, Eveliina Heinäluoma, Minja Koskela
Discussants raise questions from the deck without knowing the topics in advance. The public has been allowed to send questions in advance.
12:30-13:15 Get excited about the reference book:
Moderator Ella Airaksinen, Satu Leisko, Carly Markkanen, Marjo Kauttonen
13:15-13:30 Music: Niko Kumpuvaara, accordion
13.30-14.15 Cultural sector lobbying:
Moderator Kaisa Rönkkö, Janne Auvinen, Juhani Merimaa
14:15-14:30 Music: Niko Kumpuvaara, accordion
14:30-15:00 Trauma and nature – i.e. how to cope with eco-anxiety:
Interviewer Meri Larivaara, Harri Virtanen
15.00-16.30 Baltic Sea – carbon sink or emission source?
Moderator Piia Elonen Alf Norkko, Camilla Gustafsson, Markku Viitasalo
16:30-17:00 Music: Niko Kumpuvaara, accordion
17.00-18.00 Sign language poetry – Sign language artists in the capital region:
Moderator Netta Keski-Levijoki, (sign language artists: Jussi Rinta-Hoiska, Olga
Green and Aino Laiho. Poetry: Olga Green
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