City of Helsinki’s Environmental Protection Targets 2040 (PDF)
The City of Helsinki’s Environmental Protection Targets 2040 is a document that guides the city’s environmental protection activities. It specifies environmental targets related to the City Strategy 2021–2025 and sets targets for other environmental protection areas that the strategy does not cover.
The environmental protection targets for 2040 are a part of the city’s overall sustainable development goals. The document combines the goals for ecological sustainability and sets long-term targets that are fundamental for carrying out environmental protection consistently. Helsinki’s environmental protection targets are based on the city’s environmental policy, which was adopted by the City Council on 26 September 2012. Updating the environmental policy is timely, as the medium-term target year of 2020 has passed, and many changes have already been made to the targets.
Targets have been set for under following sub-areas:
- Mitigating climate change
- Adapting to climate change
- Air protection
- Noise abatement
- Water protection
- Protecting biodiversity
- Soil protection and remediation of contaminated soil
- Promoting the circular and sharing economy
- Promoting responsible procurement
- Promoting environmental awareness and sustainability
- Environmental management
The City Board adopted the City of Helsinki’s Environmental Protection Targets 2040 in Boards meeting on 11 March 2024.
City of Helsinki, publications of the Central Administration 2024:21
ISBN 978-952-386-451-1 (pdf)
ISSN-L 2242-4504
ISSN 2323-8135 (online)
