![]() To bring all our readers up to speed, can you tell me a little about Smart & Clean? What is its mission? Why and when was it formed? Iina, thank you for virtually joining me today. To understand better the role of Smart and Clean and its application to the U.S., I spoke with Iina Oilinki, a Chief Innovation Officer at the Foundation. They also, importantly, reduce the territoriality that often limits city and metropolitan effectiveness. Time limited, action-oriented alliances can drive a surge in activity and enable collaboration to occur across multiple sectors. ![]() ![]() The Nordics are driving the transition to the Green Economy for good reasons they understand that being ahead of the curve burnishes the global brand and economic position of their countries, cities and companies and brings tangible rewards in jobs and investment. Emission-reducing and other solutions can generate new types of business and create export possibilities for businesses.Issues as complex as mitigating or adapting to climate change require multi-sector collaboration between public agencies, private corporations and consultancies, universities, and non-profit philanthropies, think tanks and intermediaries. The ability of multiple stakeholders to collaborate around wicked problems that no single entity can tackle alone is central to designing, financing and delivering transformative climate solutions.The formation of Smart & Clean rested on several principles: The goal was to catalyze a surge of action over a five-year period and drive impactful climate solutions in the transport, energy, construction, and the waste and water sectors. In 2016, a group of leading businesses, universities, research institutions and government actors formed Helsinki Metropolitan Smart & Clean Foundation (“Smart & Clean”). But its business community has also driven an interesting approach to problem solving which, in many respects, aligns well with the multi-sector networks of US cities. Like Copenhagen, Helsinki has developed a long-range climate action plan. Copenhagen’s plan is an intricate mix of concrete goals and initiatives that aim to drive change through four areas: energy consumption, energy production, green mobility, and city administration. Luise Noring, Torben Klitgaard, Helle Lis Soholt and I, for example, have written before about how Copenhagen is on a glidepath to become the first global city to achieve zero carbon emissions. Nordic cities, in particular, have been at the vanguard of both climate mitigation and adaptation solutions for quite some time. As this team and their Congressional allies begin to craft federal policies to address climate change, it is critical that they focus on how they can leverage and learn from cities, in the U.S. The Biden Administration has built the strongest climate team of any U.S.
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