Tag: Conservation

Litter Control Action Plan 2022–2025

Published on 31.7.2024

Helsinki's Litter Control Action Plan 2022–2025 aims to reduce littering and the amount of litter in the city. The action plan brings together the best ideas from practical measures to…
People and a dog outside collecting trash.

City of Helsinki’s Environmental Protection Targets 2040

Published on 18.6.2024

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…
City of Helsinki’s Environmental Protection Targets 2040

Carbon-neutral Helsinki Action plan. Update 2024

Published on 3.6.2024

Helsinki has set a target of becoming carbon-neutral by 2030, attaining carbon zero status by 2040 and aiming to become carbon-negative afterwards. In Helsinki, the most significant sources of direct…
Aerial view of Ullanlinna, the picture shows art nouveau buildings and courtyards.

Multispecies city

Published on 19.12.2023

The City of Helsinki aims to be carbon-neutral by 2030, carbon zero by 2040, and thereafter carbon-negative. The Helsinki City Strategy requires that a scenario review is carried out in…
Picture of Vallisaari in summer, passenger ferry in the background.

Land use and planning review 2022

Published on 1.1.2022

In the future, Helsinki will become a more densely built city of distinctive districts, which also treasures its valuable natural environment. This publication features information about the planning and projects…
Renewals planned for Sörnäistenranta. © Anttinen Oiva Arkkitehdit Oy

Trash prevention questionnaire of summer 2020

Published on 1.1.2020

City of Helsinki Environmental services produced an international questionnaire on trash prevention in other cities. The questionnaire was sent to around 500 recipients, mostly in Europe. The answers were collected…
People sitting in the Esplanadi park.