Climate-related projects
The City of Tampere is developing climate change mitigation, adaptation and preparedness through various projects. On this page you will find a thematic summary of both ongoing and recently completed projects and initiatives.
Sustainable mobility
In the EU-funded Mobility Mindshift project, the City of Tampere, the city's upper secondary schools, TREDU and the University of Tampere are encouraging 15-29-year-olds in Tampere to use sustainable mobility.
The Keli project used Tampere.Finland app's carbon footprint calculator for mobility to investigate whether the appeal to health impacts can be used to guide people's mobility behaviour and encourage them to increase their daily mobility. The project ended in May 2023.
Promoting cities' carbon neutrality objectives in decision-making
The City of Tampere is participating in the international Climate-4-CAST project, which is developing tools and methodologies to help cities achieve their carbon neutrality targets. Tampere is one of the pilot cities in the project. The pilot in Tampere will include the introduction of a climate action decision support tool developed in the project, improved calculation of emissions and economic impact assessment of climate actions, and the development of climate budgeting as part of the city's financial planning.
The project is funded by the Baltic Sea Region Interreg programme and involves partners and cities from six countries around the Baltic Sea: Latvia, Poland, Sweden, Germany, Finland and Denmark. In the city, the project is implemented by the Climate and Environmental Policy Unit.
The biodiversity and carbon footprint of procurement
The City of Tampere, together with the University of Jyväskylä, studied the environmental impact of the city's procurement. The joint development project calculated the impact of the 2021 operational procurement on biodiversity and carbon emissions, and was completed at the end of 2023.
A sustainable, safe food system
In the FUSILLI project, the City of Tampere identified existing food system projects, made policy recommendations on the topic and incorporated sustainable food system measures into the Climate Neutral Tampere 2030 roadmap. The project ended at the end of 2024.
Low-emission, energy-efficient smart solutions
The STARDUST project developed low-emission and energy-efficient ICT solutions for electric transport, smart outdoor lighting, heat demand response in buildings and energy production in new residential areas, among others. The project ended in March 2024.