Tag: Environment
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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…
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…
Environmental report 2023
Published on 13.6.2024
Bicycle Account 2023
Published on 4.6.2024
The Bicycle Account 2023 is the fifth in a series of publications covering trends in cycling, resident opinions, cycling projects and cycling services in Helsinki. The first Bicycle Account was…
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…
BAU Scenario for the City of Helsinki’s Emissions up to 2050
Published on 9.2.2024
BAU Scenario for the City of Helsinki’s Emissions up to 2050 ( pdf) The aim of the work was to develop the first transparent and comparable method for implementing a…
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…
Towards a Carbon-negative City. Summary of an Expert Survey
Published on 18.12.2023
The City of Helsinki aims to be carbon-neutral by 2030, zero-carbon by 2040, and thereafter carbon negative. In order to identify concrete solutions that enable carbon-negativity, the City of Helsinki…
Environmental Report 2022
Published on 12.9.2023
The City of Helsinki’s Action Plan for the Circular and Sharing Economy
Published on 5.7.2023
Underground spaces to visit in Helsinki
Published on 31.5.2023
Helsinki’s underground spaces have been of increasing international interest. Requests for visits come almost daily to the author of this brochure alone. At the same time, safety regulations for underground…
From Agenda to Action – Implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in Helsinki 2023
Published on 23.5.2023
The City of Helsinki is committed to promoting and assessing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in its City Strategy 2021–2025: A Place of Growth. The objectives of the review…
The City of Helsinki's Annual Report 2021
Published on 22.6.2022
The City of Helsinki's Annual Report brings together the year 2021 in Helsinki. The Annual Report contains the message from the Mayor and and City Manager's review. In addition, the…
Environmental Report 2021
Published on 10.6.2022
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…
The City of Helsinki's Annual Report 2020
Published on 1.7.2021
The City of Helsinki's Annual Report 2020 (pdf)
Environmental Report 2020
Published on 11.6.2021
From Agenda to Action: Implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in Helsinki
Published on 21.5.2021
From Agenda to Action: Implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in Helsinki (PDF) This is a PDF version of the City of Helsinki’s second voluntary local review (VLR) on…
LUMO-Programme. City of Helsinki Biodiversity Action Plan 2021–2028. Abridged version
Published on 20.4.2021
The city is changing rapidly. Helsinki’s growth and climate change are posing the greatest challenges to biodiversity, and changes are inevitable. However, the impacts of changes can be kept within…
Land use and planning review 2021
Published on 1.1.2021
In the future, Helsinki will become a more densely built city of distinctive districts, which also treasures its valuable natural environments. In this publication, we present current urban environment planning…
The City of Helsinki's Annual Report 2019
Published on 1.7.2020
The City of Helsinki's Annual Report brings together the year 2019 in Helsinki. The Annual Report contains the message from the Mayor and and City Manager's review. In addition, the…
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…
Helsinki Maritime Strategy 2030
Published on 11.3.2019
Helsinki’s Maritime Strategy includes definitions of the maritime development goals, while the action plan has the measures for realising the goals. The goals of the strategy have been drafted and…