Climate Security Festival 2026
Nov
16
to Nov 17

Climate Security Festival 2026

16.11.2026 - 17.11.2026 

Finnish Meteorological Institute
Dynamicum, Erik Palménin aukio 1, 00560 Helsinki  

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We warmly welcome you to the Climate Security Festival 2026 on 16-17 November at the Finnish Meteorological Institute. Following the 2023 and 2024 editions, the event brings together researchers, civil society representatives, artists, climate security experts and others to discuss climate change related risks in an open environment and to envision a safer future climate. This year's festival theme is Shared Atmosphere.

Why Shared Atmosphere? The idea of a shared atmosphere connects the material and the relational. We inhabit atmospheric conditions together, but not equally: our bodies, infrastructures, locations and political circumstances shape our exposure to environmental change.

In this event, we understand climate security from a comprehensive point of view. What can a safer future climate and atmosphere look like from the perspective of civil society, arts and research? Moving beyond securitization, we aim to look at our shared atmosphere as space and community; as healthy nature and soil; as access to health and wellbeing in times of change, climate disruption, natural disasters and political polarization. 

The event is free and open for all but registration is required. The festival’s main language is English.

Registration

Please register by filling this form.

Important: there is space for 100 participants in the event, and the spots are filled by first come, first serve principle. Please let us know as soon as possible if you are unable to attend so that we can give your spot to someone else. The event is in-person only.

Additional details will be sent to all participants via email before the event.

Follow event updates via saferclimate.org.

The event is organized by Safer Climate and Artists with Evidence in collaboration with the Finnish Meteorological Institute. 


Safer Climate is based at the University of Helsinki Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR) as part of the Atmosphere and Climate Competence Center (ACCC) Flagship programme funded by the Research Council of Finland.

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Maaleipä Challenge Ceremony: IHME Helsinki x Safer Climate
Sep
21

Maaleipä Challenge Ceremony: IHME Helsinki x Safer Climate

The Climate Security Festival is organized in collaboration with IHME Helsinki. The annual IHME Helsinki Commissions, tailored for public spaces, spring from the dialogue between art and researched knowledge. This year’s commission is called Maaleipä, carried out by the London-based artist duo Cooking Sections.

The Maaleipä Challenge invites all home bakers, bakeries, restaurants, schools, and communities in Finland to create bread recipes that combine the well-being of land, water and people’s guts. The best recipes will be awarded at the Maaleipä ceremony at Kellohalli in Helsinki on 21 September 2024.

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CBSS Webinar: Climate Security
Nov
29

CBSS Webinar: Climate Security

Want to learn more about the interrelationship between climate change and societal stability? Attend a webinar on Climate Security organised by the Finnish Ministry of the Interior and Savonia University of Applied Sciences on 29 November 2023. The event is part of Finland’s Presidency of the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS).  Results from the Climate Security Festival 2023 will be presented in the webinar but Safer Climate is not part of organizing the event. Welcome!

Date: 29.11.2023, at 13-15 CEST, 14-16 EEST

Venue: Online, ZOOM (the link will be sent to registered users)

Registration: by 24th of November at https://ilmastoturvallisuus.savonia.fi/ajankohtaista/climate-security-webinar/

In Central European Time

Programme

13.00-13.05 Opening words, Mr. Jari Honkanen, FI Ministry of the Interior

13.05-13.15 Climate security as a part of Finland´s Presidency year in the Council of Baltic Sea States, Mr. Jyri Wuorisalo, Savonia University of Applied Sciences

13.15-13.30 How to cope with the world we are on our way to? Mr. Pekka Reinikainen, Finnish Red Cross

13.30-13.45 Climate security as concept and policy, Ms. Emma Hakala, The Finnish Institute of International Affairs

13.45-14.00 The EU in climate security, Mr. Juha-Pekka Jäpölä, European Commission/Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO)

14.00-14.15 Climate security in wartime, Mr. Anton Tkachenko, Head of Economics Department, National Scientific Centre "Institute of Agriculture of NAAS" (Kyiv, Ukraine)

14.15-14.30 Climate crisis - no one is left behind, Mr. Petri Virtanen, Management Institute of Finland MIF

14.30-14.45 Combining research, civil society and arts: results from Finland’s first Climate Security Festival, Ms. Rosa Rantanen, University of Helsinki

14.45-15.00 Discussions and Closing remarks and ending of the webinar

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PAX-webinaari: Sota, ilmasto ja ympäristö
Nov
16

PAX-webinaari: Sota, ilmasto ja ympäristö

PAX-webinaari 16.11.2023: Sota, ilmasto ja ympäristö

Tule mukaan Rauhanjärjestö Sadankomitean PAX-webinaariin, jossa keskustellaan ajankohtaisista rauhanpoliittisista aiheista yhdessä asiantuntijoiden kanssa. Ohjelmassa myös Ilmastoturvallisuusfestivaalin tuloksia.

Webinaarissa esitellään syyskuussa ensimmäistä kertaa järjestetyn ilmastoturvallisuusfestivaalin ja sodan ilmasto- ja ympäristövaikutukset -työpajan tuloksia. Helsingin yliopiston Safer Climate -verkoston koordinaattori Rosa Rantanen johdattaa meidät tutkimuksen, kansalaisyhteiskunnan ja taiteen kentän toimijoiden yhteistyöhön. Keskustelemme myös sota, ilmasto ja ympäristö -työpajan tuloksista Jarmo Pykälän johdolla.

Webinaari pidetään 16.11.2023 klo 17-18 Zoomissa ja se on maksuton.

Ilmoittautuminen tapahtumaan päättyy samana päivänä klo 12 mennessä. Lähetämme ilmoittautuneille Zoom-webinaarilinkin tapahtumapäivänä.

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Climate Security Festival
Sep
21
to Sep 22

Climate Security Festival

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Safer Climate Breakfast and Networking Event
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11

Safer Climate Breakfast and Networking Event

An informative but informal network meeting with breakfast for Safer Climate members and others interested. Follow live discussion on Finland’s first climate litigation case and get to know others. You can familiarize yourself with the climate lawsuit filed by Greenpeace and the Finnish Union for the Conservation of Nature here.

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