HELSINKI: Tackling climate challenges together - Solutions and tools from Helsinki-Uusimaa Region

We will share our experiences of how collaboration can meet climate challenges. The Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council will present its model of cooperation, where the public and private sector, as well as R&D&I actors along with the inhabitants contribute to the climate change mitigation by acknowledging the limits of the environment. The cities of Helsinki, Vantaa, Espoo and Porvoo will present their most impressive cooperative climate actions. The Helsinki Region Environmental Services Authority HSY, Kausal Ltd and the Climate Leadership Coalition (CLC) will bring you new tools for climate work.

Tackling global and local challenges together

• New ways of collaboration, quintuple helix -model and accelerated learning process in regional climate work, Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council
• Helsinki Energy Challenge - creating the future of urban heating, City of Helsinki
• Low carbon district -tool, Helsinki Region Environmental Services Authority (HSY)
• New model of development commitment in Kera District, City of Espoo
• AVIA Network´s Green Deal Manifesto, towards climate neutral airport area 2030, City of Vantaa
• The accelerator of sustainable living - the city as an enabler of sustainable everyday life, City of Porvoo

Tools for collaboration and accelerated pathway

• Kausal Watch and Kausal Paths, monitoring tool for climate actions and scenario tool for assessing and visualizing climate scenarios, Kausal Ltd
• Carbon handprint method for solution developers, Climate Leadership Coalition (CLC)

Organizer: Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional council 

Others involved: City of Helsinki, City of Espoo, City of Vantaa, City of Porvoo, Climate Leadership Coalition (CLC), Kausal Ltd, Helsinki Region Environmental Authority (HSY)

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