Nearly 500 registered!

 The conference is filling up and first sessions and visits are full. The conference programme is ready to be printed and the last details are finding their places. Soon the participants are going to experience Solutions local, together Conference which offers you:

• passionate speakers with solutions to share
• interior design that has a story and a new dimension of sustainability
• local solutions visits that enable a true discussion and insights 
• local food that has been carefully thought through
• active discussion with experts from over 15 countries, nearly 110 cities

We hope that you are going to be one of the lucky ones to attend the conference and part of the atmosphere that can only be experienced in this unique sustainable conference! We are doing the utmost to make it a memorable event worth all the efforts done to reach Turku, Finland - the European culture capital 2011!

Climate change accompanied by extreme weather phenomena

We have experienced various extreme weather phenomena during the last weeks. During the last few years, heat waves and heavy rain have become more frequent worldwide, with less snow, more fires, more heavy rainfall and more intense storms.

In Northern regions, such as Scandinavia, changes in climate are approximately twice as strong as elsewhere in the world because of the contraction of the polar snow and ice cover, and the after effects of this in heating created by radiation.

July was exceptionally warm in Scandinavia and various temperature records were broken on several occasions. The hot weather have given rise to violent thunder squalls and thunderstorms that have caused extensive damage in different areas. According to the weather forecast we might still experience some of these phenomena during the following weeks.

The occasionally intense heat wave that affects large areas of Scandinavia and the other extreme weather phenomena happening all over the world, are a reminder of the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The demand for solutions that help reduce emissions, and thus reduce the extreme weather phenomena, is increasing.