Recipes for Systemic Change - Helsinki Design Lab

DIMENSIONS OF THE PROBLEMProvided below are a number of key dimensions to the sustainabilitychallenge. This list is by no means exhaustive and you are encouraged tointroduce further dimensions.D1 – CarbonD1.1 Greenhouse Gas SourcesAmong EU Member States, Finland was a latecomer to industrialization.During the decades between independence from Russia in 1917 and thestructural shift to an industrialised economy in the 1950's, the country waslargely agrarian. Its rapid economic rise during the 1960's and 70's% of GDP100806040PrimaryProductionManufacturingIndustriesServiceSector200|||||||||||||||Volume Index GDP (index 1926=100)18001600140012001000800600GDPCO Emissions807060504030Mte CO40020200100| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |0|1860186518701875188018851890189519001905191019151920192519301935194019451950195519601965197019751980198519901995200020052010186218721882189219021912192219321942195219621972198219922002Structural Change in the Economy 1860-2007SourceStatisticsFinlandGDP and CO2 Emissions 1860-2008to become one of Europe's richest countries produced a parallel rise inits greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Now, Finland’s per capita GHG areamong the highest in Europe, in spite of having one of the lowest emissionslevels per total primary energy unit.217