Less talk, more actions
Our goals are ambitious. We want to be a model city for sustainable actions and work at the forefront to achieve it. Lappeenranta has already achieved plenty of attention for its sustainable development actions, i.e.:Â
- We have been WWF's Climate Capital of Finland in 2014 & 2016
- We are the first city in the world to utilize only EKOenergy certified electricity
- We are the first city in Finland to acquire only biogas or electric cars
- We received the Finnish Association of Municipal Engineering's (FAME) award for separate plastic collection in 2018
- We received the European Green Leaf 2021 Award from the European Commission
- Lappeenranta was chosen as one of the 100 climate cities of the European Union in the spring of 2022
- Our Mayor Kimmo Jarva was part of the 2022 Covenant of Mayors initiative, the world's largest climate network for local climate energy actions
The aim is to become a carbon neutral city by 2030. By 2050, we are a city that doesn't produce landfill waste or greenhouse gas emissions and doesn't overproduce.
