Helsinki is ENGAGEd!

	Helsinki is the Capital City of Finland with roughly 580, 000 inhabitants. It is located in eastern Scandinavia at the beautiful shore of Baltic Sea. Helsinki has a long history in energy saving: already in the 1974´s the Energy Saving Board of Helsinki was formed. From this time on, a systematic approach to reduce GHG emission and enhance the energy efficiency has taken place in city organization. Helsinki has committed to reduce its CO2 emissions by 9% by year 2016 and moreover 20% by year 2020. By year 2030 the target is to reduce 39% CO2 in the whole metropolitan area. Helsinki City has run also different kind of participatory communication campaigns, to name but a few: SAVE, CYBER (Display® posters) and annual energy saving week (41). In year 2010 the climate information center was published to support the sustainable decisions and live style of citizen.

>> See Helsinki poster gallery!	ENGAGEMENTS CITIZEN POSTERS STAKEHOLDER POSTERS PUBLIC SERVANT POSTERS 0 3 9 2 0 3 5 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 2

Local campaign website	http://www.kevyinaskelin.fi

Evaluation tool	http://www.ilmastodieetti.fi The evaluation tool gives the results as CO2 kg/ year The tool does have also following beneficial features: -quite specified and wide range of questions about sustainable life style -possibility to register the user and data (and update it afterwards) -possibility to follow the development according to the different areas in Helsinki -Continuous development work and promotion done by Finnish Environment Institute

Contact	Tiia Katajamäki [email protected]

Communication campaign plan	PR campaign PLAN (PDF - suomi - 126 Ko)

Communication materials	Engaging city workers_ENGAGE campaing in Helsinki (PDF - English - 974 Ko) Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSyCnb5qJrk&feature;=plcp (URL - English)

Energy monitoring	Analysis report with survey results (PDF - English - 774 Ko)

Events study tours	Event_programme_Helsinki (PDF - suomi - 58 Ko)

Interdepartemental meetings	Decisions taken at interdep meetings (PDF - suomi - 87 Ko)