Ari Nissinen Email & Phone Number

I have always been interested about the question, what makes a product ‘ecological’ or ‘green’ or ‘environmentally sound’ or ‘environmentally preferable’. And how companies can produce and market more green products. I made my first research report about public procurement to the City of Espoo (published 1991) and the next one to the Ministry of Environment (1993 about state procurement). Now I am experienced in carbon footprint of public organizations, in environmental impacts of household consumption, in promoting eco-design in companies, in user-driven innovations like a design competition for eco-efficient office building, and eco-efficiency of city planning.I am an author of 42 articles in refereed journals and research books, and of over 100 other publications. I am the subject editor of the series ‘Reports of the Finnish Environment Institute’ since 1.1.2018.I have been the Project manager for dozens of R&D projects. For example, ‘Solutions for passive office buildings and their eco-efficiency’ (Synergia-pilot), 2009–2011 funding 237 250 € by Tekes. Now the project Climate-smart health technologies (CLISHEAT) with funding 399 000 € from the Academy of Finland.In the European Union, I was a member of the working group 'Product information needs’ for 2005–2006, and of the informal Green Public Procurement advisory group for 2010–2012. I have also been a member in different working groups and expert groups of the Nordic Council of Ministers during the years 2001–2017. The chair I was for the expert group 'Product group' 1/2007–12/2008, and for 5/2015–5/2017 for the Sustainable Consumption and Production Working Group. I was a member in the jury of yearly Ekoauto competition for 2005–2014 (Tuulilasi car magazine), and a member in the Eco-label Board 2010-2020. I have been in the CSR Board of the Chamber of Commerce since June 2019 (Keskuskauppamarin Vastuullisuuslautakunta). I have given 7 expert statements in the Parliament to the Environmental and the Economic Committees in years 2006-2024.I have been teaching to university students and other students and to professional audiences, and given whole-day lectures also in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.Regarding TV programs, I was the ‘Climate Doctor’ in 2010 for the TV program ‘Climate diets’ of the National broacasting company YLE, advicing 4 celebrity families, in 5 chapters, and publishing calculator www.climatediet.fi (www.ilmastodieetti.fi). TV-News have interviewed me many times, about e.g. flights and consumption by MTV 26.12.2017 and 15.1.2018, and by YLE 1.4.2018 and 22.8.2023.