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Green Office Environmental Management SystemHelka Julkunen

Head of Green Office Programme

Green Office is from Finland

• WWF Finland developed Green

Office programme in 2002

• Green Office in Finland

• 162 organisations

• 443 offices

• Almost 64 000 employees

• Green Office around the world

• 105 organisations

• 137 offices

• Over 31 000 employees

• Local Green Office networks

are working actively in China,

Latvia, Pakistan and Turkey

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WWF’s mission is build a

future in which humans

live in harmony with

nature.

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WWF Finland’s Income and Expenditure

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Income in accounting period 2014-2015 Expenditure in accounting period 2014-2015

From individuals

44 %

Wills5 %

Corporate donations

11 %

Public funding32 %

Other (foundations,

WWF)7 %

Investments1 %

Conservation and

communication80 %

Fundraising16 %

Administration and finance

4 %

Results of Annual Reporting, spring 2016

What is Green Office?

• A practical environmental management system for offices

• A meaningful way to diminish the expenses

• Tool to support environmental management

• An education programme that inspires employees to adopt

environmentally friendly habits

• Tool for internal and external environmental communication

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Green Office Targets

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• Reduce the consumption of

natural resources in offices

• Climate change mitigation

• Promote sustainable lifestyle

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Green Offices Protect the Nature

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• Environmental management

system helps to reduce offices

own environmental effects

• Annual fees support WWF’s

conservation work

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Green Office Offers Services

• Information and support for EMS

implementation

• Right to use Green Office label

• Green Office diploma

• Tools

• Events

• Office inspections

• Newsletters

• Green Office tips

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Themes of the Environmental Programme

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• Energy

• Transportation

• Procurement

• Waste and recycling

• Water

• Biodiversity

• People

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Green Office Tools

• Compass

• Information channel of Green

Office network

• Guidelines to build up and

maintain Green Office

• Includes necessary documents

e.g. environmental programme

• wwf.fi/compass

• Climate Calculator

• Tool to calculate emissions

• www.climatecalculator.net

• Consumer Habit

Questionnaire

• Questionnaire to evaluate

environmental awareness of

employees

• Green Offices get the summary of

the results

• wwf.fi/goquestionnaire

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Building up the Environmental Management System

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Contract stage* Green Office contract

* Green Office

contact person

* Admission fee

AssessmentGreen Office team

Environmental

programme* Targets

* Tasks

* Coordinators

* Timetables

Inspection* Green Office labeling

rights

* Annual fee

EMS* Implementation

* Information, training &

guidelines

* Monitoring

• After contract signing it takes about 7 to 10 months to set up the Green Office system.

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Annualreporting

Office inspection(head office every

three years)

Maintaining, updating

and improving

• Continuous

improvement

Green Office Criteria

1. Selecting Green Office coordinator and establishing team

2. Planning a practical environmental programme with help of tools provided by

WWF

3. Saving energy

4. Choosing indicators. There have to be at least three indicators. Numeric targets

have to be set and target needs to be followed.

5. Reducing amount of generated waste. Recycles and sorting out waste according

to local requirements.

6. Paying attention to environmental aspects in procurement

7. Informing employees about Green Office practices

8. Reporting indicator data yearly to WWF

9. Updating environmental program yearly

10. Aiming to continuous improvements

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Case: WWF Finland’s office

• Office in Sörnäinen Helsinki

• Around 45 employees• Environmental protection work in

Finland and around the world, international development, environmental education, communications and marketing, fundraising, corporate relations, finance and administration

• Indicators• Electricity consumption

• Paper consumption

• Air traffic

• Consumer Habit Questionnaire

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Consumption of Electricity

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1 208,9

1 379,2

1 125,2

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753,3

631,3

786,9

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505,9

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Paper Consumption

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6,9

7,4

5,5

4,4 4,4

3,3 3,33,5

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Results of Consumer Habit Questionnaire

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71,774,8 73,9 74,0

76,4 75,277,7 79,5

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2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Average points (max 100)


Flight Compensations

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94,7

204,0

174,7

158,9

121,5

155,5

110,8

158,5

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tCO2 total

In the Network in Finland

Amer Sports Oy

Berner Oy

Dittmar & Indrenius Attorneys Ltd.

Fujitsu Finland Oy

Gullstén-Inkinen Oy

If P&C Insurance Company Ltd.

Joensuun Science Park

Leijona Catering Oy

Microsoft Oyj

NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Oy

Nokia Oyj

Nordea Finance Finland

PricewaterhouseCoopers Oy

TBWA Helsinki Oy

SEA LIFE Helsinki

Schneider Electric Finland Oy

Senaatti Properties

Sponda Oyj

Yleisradio Oy

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In the Network in Finland

City of Lahti

Finnish Centre of Pensions

Finnish Meteorological Institute

Ministry of Education and Culture

Ministry of Finance

Ministry of the Environment

Metropolia University of Applied Sciences

Municipality Finance

National Land Survey of Finland

Tax Administration

Theatre Academy of the University of the

Arts Helsinki

University of Jyväskylä

Finnish Composers' Copyright Society

Teosto

Finnish Student Health Service FSHS

Service Union United PAM

Trade Union of Education in Finland© N

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Pictures © 2016, WWF.

More information?Helka Julkunen / Head of Green Office programme

Gsm 040 531 0555

[email protected]

greenoffice.fi/en

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.wwf.fi/green_office

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