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12.9.2012 Jussi Pajunen
Environment policy and global responsibility strategy
Helsinki Environment Centre, Environmental manager
Päivi Kippo-Edlund
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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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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
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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Environmental management
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• Municipal enterprices has seritified environmental managment systems
• Priciples of less formal environmental management systems are included into departments and subsidiary corporations own strategys
Partnerships
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• 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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Global responsibility strategy
Strategiaohjelma 2009-2012 (Kvsto 29.4.2009)
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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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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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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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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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