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The Finnish Citizen's Commitment to Sustainable Lifestyles
Description

A Sustainable Lifestyle -service for citizens enables Finns to pursue a more sustainable everyday life. With the renewed service, users can first calculate their personal carbon footprint and then draw up a personal plan to reduce it by choosing suitable actions from a recommended selection of smart choices. Every individual plan contributes to the national emissions reduction target.

Expected impact

The average carbon footprint of Finns will go down from 10 000 co2kg to 5 000 co2kg by 2025

Website

https://www.sitoumus2050.fi/en/web/sitoumus2050/lifestyles#/

Goal 12
12.8 - By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature
Staff / Technical expertise
A sustainable lifestyles project coordinator works at Prime Minister's Office with support form Sitra
Other, please specify
The web page for the carbon footprint calculator and commitment to lower the individuals footprint was lauched winter 2019
Basic information
Start: 01 January, 2019
Completion: 31 December, 2025
Entity
Prime Minister's Office of Finland (Government)
Partners
Finnish Future House Sitra and Prime Minister's Office
Initiative focused on COVID-19 pandemic response, prevention and recovery efforts
Not specified
Geographical coverage
Global
Beneficiary countries
Other beneficiaries
Citizens
Contact information
Riina Pursiainen, Project Coordinator, riina.pursiainen@vnk.fi,
Headquarters
Helsinki/Finland
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