Presented at Greening Events worktrip in London 6th March 2013 by Salla Koivusalo

1. Environment policy and global
responsibility strategy
Helsinki Environment Centre, Environmental manager
Päivi Kippo-Edlund
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2. The sections of environmental policy
, approved by city council 26.9.2012
• Climate protection
• Air pollution
• Prevention of environmental noise
• Water conservation
• Natural and soil conservation
• Procurement, material efficiency and waste
• Environmental awarness and responsiblity
• Environmental management and partnerships
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3. Procurement, material efficiency
• 50 % of city procurement process’s includes environmental criteria by
2015
• 100 of city procurement process’s includes environmental criteria by
2020
– Environmental criteria can be an absolute requirement or benchmark
criteria
• All adminstratative units and subsidiary corporations are educated for
sustainable procurements

4. Environmental awarness and
responsibility
• All work communties has educated eco support person
• Sustainable lifestyle choices are easy to make with supporting services
• Decion makers and city employee’s environmental awarness enables
responsible activities and decions
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5. Environmental management
• Municipal enterprices has seritified environmental managment
systems
• Priciples of less formal environmental management systems are
included into departments and subsidiary corporations own
strategys
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6. Partnerships
• To implement city’s enviromental policy and economic development
strategy city searches for partnerships with companies and other
stakeholders
• Ecocompass –environmental management system is well known tool
for SME’s and it is available for all companies in Helsinki Metropolitan
Area
• Baltic sea challange has 300 partners. City helps the partners in
implementation of effective procetion of the Baltic sea
• Environmental programme or plan is made for all major events
arranged in Helsinki
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7. Global responsibility strategy
Strategiaohjelma 2009-2012 (Kvsto 29.4.2009)
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8. Challanges in preparatory phase
 The content of the global strategy has no clear definition in municipality
level
 There are no other examples of municipal global strategys in Finland
 In companies comparable guidelines are called social responsibility
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9. Municipal global responsibility aspects
 Local actions for prevention and mitigation of climate change and
cross the boarder environmental protection issues
 Global environmental and social aspects of procurement
 Local actions in immigration and diversity
 Alingments in international co-operation
 Actions in economic issues and financial
 Actions in personnel and work related issues
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10. Content of global strategy
 Climate change and environmental protection
 Procurement
 Environment
 Social
 Immigration and diversty
 International co-operation
 Economic responsibility and prevention of the grey economy
 Personnel
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11. New alingnements
 City avoids to co-operate with companies having connections to tax
havens
 Helsinki is applying for FairTrade -city title
 More ambitious reductions in green house gas emissions in long term
 Finnish language education is more easy to get for immigrants
 Refugees and asylum seeker childrens and youth quick access for
rehabilition services
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12. Paivi.kippo-
edlund@hel.fi
Kaupunginjohtaja Jussi
Pajunen