The Janakkala municipal council decided in 2023 to initiate the drafting of a climate plan and a biodiversity program. The climate plan has been completed, and the drafting of the biodiversity program (lumo) is underway. The program is expected to be completed by spring 2025. The council also decided that the measures of the climate plan and the lumo program will be transferred to the Climate Monitor tool.

In Janakkala, the Climate Monitor tool is referred to as the Environmental Monitor of Janakkala, as it will include measures from both the climate plan and the lumo program.

With the environmental monitoring tool, residents, municipal staff, and decision-makers can track the progress of the municipality’s climate and biodiversity work. Each measure has a contact person responsible for updating the status of the measure in the environmental monitor. Additionally, the environmental monitor facilitates communication about residents’ opportunities to participate in climate and nature related matters.

Janakkala is also involved in the Häme Climate Monitor project coordinated by Häme University of Applied Sciences and the Regional Council of Häme. The participating municipalities have committed to the goal of becoming a carbon-neutral region by 2035. The Häme Climate Monitor is the first regional online service that brings together the climate, circular economy, and environmental actions of the organizations involved. All municipalities in Kanta-Häme and other organizations are participating in the Häme Climate Monitor. Over 500 measures have already been recorded in the monitor at the regional level.

>> Explore Janakkala’s Climate Monitor.

The Janakkala municipal strategy emphasizes the perspective of climate work with the value of responsibility. The Climate Monitor tool and the KETS agreement (Municipal Energy Efficiency Agreement) are used as metrics for the strategy. One of the goals of the strategy is that sustainable development is an integral part of the municipality’s daily life.

Janakkala’s greenhouse gas emissions have decreased by 42% from the 2007 level by the end of 2023 (Greenhouse gas calculations). The largest sources of emissions in 2023 were road traffic, agriculture, and construction machinery. Since the reference year of 2007, per capita emissions have decreased by 41 %.

Janakkala is part of a network of eco-industrial parks. The network includes pioneers in circular economy eco-industrial parks in the region. The mission of the network is to exchange best practices in the circular economy and monitor development in the field in Finland and worldwide. Network of eco-industrial parks

Janakkala has beautiful old forests that have become rare in Southern Finland, and to protect them, a mapping of conservation areas suitable for the METSO program has been conducted. As a result of the mapping, four new METSO sites have been identified on land owned by the municipality of Janakkala:

• Pukalinkallio
• Luulionvuori
• Laurinmäki
• Saparonniemi