Recipes for Systemic Change - Helsinki Design Lab

different scales of funding will include everything from small subsidies (toencourage micro-generation and improved insulation for homeowners), tolarge investments in energy production facilities. Finance must go hand-inhandwith de-carbonization strategies."The OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030 projected that, if we continueon a business as usual path, global greenhouse gas emissions will grow byover 50 percent by 2050…This pace of change is ten times greater than thatexperienced since the last Ice Age."-OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria, 10 October 2008"Clearly in financial terms, in human terms, in ecological terms the challengethat climate change poses will require much greater investment…So you could justifiably say, not enough was offered in Copenhagen. Withthe scientific community saying that we need to reduce global emissionsby 50% by mid-century, that in order to achieve that, industrialised countriesprobably need to reduce their emissions by 80% by mid-century, Idon't think that Copenhagen or indeed Mexico is going to be the last wordon climate change."-UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer, 20 January 2010State Of The StateSome key questions for this studio: What is Finland doing to tackleclimate change? How well is it performing according to its current policies?Where must it go from here?Within the EU, climate change policies in Finland are generally perceivedas lagging behind leading European states. For instance, in spite ofgovernment developed and implemented energy efficiency regulations forbuildings in the 1970's (cutting edge at the time) these regulations have onlybeen marginally improved since their inception as a response to the EnergyCrisis.In 2002, the EU issued a Directive on the energy performance in buildings,prompting many countries to reappraise the intent of existing buildingcodes that focused largely on calculating component-based insulationperformance. Most countries, including some of the newest member states,adopted regulations based on total energy use—commonly associated withprimary energy. This fundamentally new, integrative approach incorporatesaspects such as orientation of the building, lighting and heating/coolingsystems.Although Finland opted to meet the minimum requirements of thisDirective, the Ministry of the Environment has set a 2012 target for implementingnew building codes based on an energy performance value that iscalculated from all energy delivered to a building.214