Project funding was now granted especially for art projects offering art experiences to all residents in Lahti and the neighbouring municipalities. Several projects supporting the relationship of children and young people with nature also received funding.

The Finnish city of Lahti has an ambitious goal of being carbon neutral in 2025, 25 years before the general target of the European union. This industrial city in Southern Finland stopped burning coal in 2019. Next, the focus is on traffic emissions.

Who needs a city bike in the winter when you can ski? The Finnish city of Lahti is rolling out the world’s first urban ski-sharing program. Lahti, the reigning European Green Capital, wants to encourage people to reduce their transport-related carbon emissions. 

Finnish ice hockey club Lahti Pelicans aspires to be the first carbon neutral hockey club in the world. To celebrate their hometown’s turn as the 2021 European Green Capital, the club showcases the city’s environmental solutions with unusual jersey numbers in Finland’s top professional ice hockey league.  

The European Green Capital Year in Lahti was officially launched with a virtual Handover and Opening Ceremony on Friday 15 January 2021 . The year 2021 is an opportunity for Lahti to showcase Finnish and European green innovation. The European Green Capital Award (EGCA) pays tribute to Lahti’s long history of environmental action. Cities and urban environmental management and initiatives play an important role in tackling global environmental challenges.

The year 2021 is an opportunity for Lahti to showcase Finnish and European green innovation. The European Green Capital Award (EGCA) pays tribute to Lahti’s long history of environmental action. Urban environmental management and initiatives play an important role in tackling global environmental challenges.

The 2020 review praised Lahti for its best practice standards in both adaptation and mitigation actions. Lahti has set ambitious but realistic targets and progressed in meeting them.

As a European forerunner in tackling environmental issues, the City of Lahti leads by example and calls for Finnish municipalities and other actors and stakeholders to join forces in climate action.