🚴♂️ Follow Nicolas around the globe to discover 12 green initiatives from 12 different countries and the people behind them.
➡ In Finland, Johana shows us around the unusual town of Ii, a small place north of the country which managed to become Europe’s most eco-friendly town by slashing its CO2 emissions down by 80% and producing 10 times more renewable energy than it consumes. We are joining her to learn more about the old Sami city’s ambitions of becoming the world’s first zero waste city.
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Hi nicola i am johanna and i am from e finland i am going to show you how we work here in e come with me Party covered the solution selection for the foreign Democracy soviet Welcome to municipality of e finland where the sea and rivers meet e is only 25-minute drive to north from city of all and is a growing region with around ten thousand residents many people wonder about e’s unusual short name the origin of the name is
Said to be based on the sami word itiya or which means night here in e we always say that together is sustainable is famous climate work started around 10 years ago when we realized that climate change is here and everybody should make an effort to fight against it and everybody should be heard
Ee is known to be the most representative city of what a sustainable and zero-waste city is can you tell us what has been achieved in e e’s climate actions and citizen engagement and encouragement towards better sustainable future have raised worldwide media interests and headlines how has a small place in northern
Finland managed to become europe’s most eco-friendly town e has lost its co2 emissions by 80 and is producing 10 times more renewable energy than it consumes he has managed to cut down oil consumption by 89 from 2010 level energy heat and water data are collected in real time from all public buildings
Schools and day cares follow 50 50 concepts These numbers are unbelievable 80 cut off co2 emissions and 89 cut off oil consumption in e the use of smart meters is a daily practice as you said all the public buildings collect its energetic data in real time but tell me what’s the 50 50 program
Now we are one of the local schools paltry school and now we are going to hear more about 50 50 projects hello nicola my name is pirco quesquitalo and i’m a leader of the 50 50 project here in walter school and the name of the project has become
Because uh if if we can save money from electricity heating and water so we can get 50 back from the saved money to our school and we can use it as we like among your many successes is the profitability of your environmental policy in fact this is one of your major
Arguments i imagine that tangible payback becomes a motivator for every citizen to participate perhaps here is a key for strengthening the democratic process through ecological engagement now you are taking us to someone who is going to show us how democracy and environmental work connect in e
Now we are going to meet dejolieres who is head of the chair of the municipality there is going to tell us how the democracy and the climate work links together hi nicola here in e we are trying to get people used to take part when we make decisions
And and we’re planning what we are doing here in our municipality so we try to organize workshops and for example questionnaire is in internet and people have possibility to tell us what they want and we are trying of course to to make decisions which are which they hope and for example we
We’ve been organizing um occasions where we are supporting people when they want to have their own solar panels so we are helping them to get contacts with the companies and probably they can have those a little bit cheaper with our help johanna everything seems so perfect and
Idyllic but tell me is there any challenging issue that you still need to deal with the biggest challenge is how we’ll get everybody to join we’ll continue our work with the citizens companies and municipalities staff to make participation easier so that everybody is hurt we truly believe that the future is in
The children he has shown that everybody can do this together in an example inclusive language for a new episode the cycling for democracy [Applause]