Ha Noi (VNA) – The Embassy of Finland to Viet Nam officially received the Green Office Certificate from WWF Greater Mekong on March 13, in recognition for taking responsibility for their own “carbon footprint”.
The embassy is the second member of the Green Office Programme in Viet Nam , which began in the later part of 2007.
The embassy started working with the WWF Green Office Programme in September 2007, a programme that steers offices towards environmentally friendly practices. The embassy has now successfully implemented a short-term environmental management plan, which includes reducing waste and consumption of electricity, mitigating transport emissions, and training their staff to think in more environmentally friendly ways.
The Green Office Programme was eatablished in 1997 by WWF Finland. It is a light international environmental management system aimed foe both the public and private sector. The programme aims to take a simple and practical orientation and a learning by doing approach.
Through this programme, WWF hopes that corporations and organisations can try to be a part of the solution to environmental threats.
“It is very important for governments, international organizations and companies alike not only to know the measures to be taken in the field of ensuring environmental sustainability and curbing climate change in political and ‘in principle’ levels, but also to have experience in taking the actiens by themselves in everyday life,” said Pekka Hyvonen, Ambassador of Finaland to Viet Nam.
WWF will soon expand the programme to Laos and Cambodie.-Enditem
The embassy is the second member of the Green Office Programme in Viet Nam , which began in the later part of 2007.
The embassy started working with the WWF Green Office Programme in September 2007, a programme that steers offices towards environmentally friendly practices. The embassy has now successfully implemented a short-term environmental management plan, which includes reducing waste and consumption of electricity, mitigating transport emissions, and training their staff to think in more environmentally friendly ways.
The Green Office Programme was eatablished in 1997 by WWF Finland. It is a light international environmental management system aimed foe both the public and private sector. The programme aims to take a simple and practical orientation and a learning by doing approach.
Through this programme, WWF hopes that corporations and organisations can try to be a part of the solution to environmental threats.
“It is very important for governments, international organizations and companies alike not only to know the measures to be taken in the field of ensuring environmental sustainability and curbing climate change in political and ‘in principle’ levels, but also to have experience in taking the actiens by themselves in everyday life,” said Pekka Hyvonen, Ambassador of Finaland to Viet Nam.
WWF will soon expand the programme to Laos and Cambodie.-Enditem
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