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Green Office Environmental Management System

Green Office is from Finland

• WWF Finland developed Green

Office programme in 2002

• Green Office in Finland

• 150 organisations

• 403 offices

• Around 57,500 employees

• Green Office around the world

• 106 organisations

• 128 offices

• Around 34,200 employees

• Local Green Office networks are

working actively in China, Latvia,

Pakistan, and Turkey

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Numbers: April 2017

WWF’s mission is to build

a future in which humans

live in harmony with

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WWF Finland’s Income and Expenditure

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Income in accounting period 2015-2016 Expenditure in accounting period 2015-2016

From individuals

50 %

Public funding26 %

Corporate cooperation

10 %

Other (foundations,

WWF)7 %

Investments6 %

Wills1 %

Conservation and

communication77 %

Fundraising17 %

Administration and finance

6 %

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

• Food

• Waste and recycling

• Water

• Nature and 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

• Aim to continuous

improvement

Green Office Criteria

You will get the Green Office label once your office:

1. Selects a Green Office coordinator and team.

2. Plans a practical environmental programme.

3. Improves energy efficiency continuously in order to mitigate greenhouse gas

emissions.

4. Reduces waste, and recycles, and sorts waste according to law and local

requirements.

5. Pays attention to environmental concerns in procurements.

6. Informs and educates its personnel about Green Office practices.

7. Takes steps towards continuous improvement in environmental matters.

8. Update its environmental programme annually.

9. Chooses the indicators, sets numeric objectives, and monitors fulfilment of the

goals.

10. Reports to WWF annually.

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Case: WWF Finland’s office

• Office in Sörnäinen Helsinki

• Around 50 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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Paper Consumption

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6,9

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Results of Consumer Habit Questionnaire

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71,774,8 73,9 74,0

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Flight Compensations

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In the Network in Finland

Amer Sports Oy

Dittmar & Indrenius Attorneys Ltd.

Evli Bank Plc

Fujitsu Finland Oy

If P&C Insurance Company Ltd.

Joensuun Science Park

Leijona Catering Oy

Microsoft Oy

NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Oy

Newsec Asset Management Oy

Nokia Oyj

Nordea Finance Finland

PricewaterhouseCoopers Oy

TBWA Helsinki Oy

Telia Finland Oyj

SEA LIFE Helsinki

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

Finnish Transport Agency

Ministry of Finance

Ministry of the Environment

Metropolia University of Applied Sciences

Municipality Finance

National Land Survey of Finland

Tax Administration

University of Jyväskylä

University of the Arts Helsinki

Finnish Composers' Copyright Society Teosto

Finnish Student Health Service FSHS

Service Union United PAM

Trade Union of Education in Finland

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Pictures © 2017, WWF.

More information?Helka Julkunen / Head of Green Office programme

Tel. +358 40 531 0555

helka.julkunen@wwf.fi

greenoffice.fi/en