The Spark Blog

As the year ends, it’s time to reflect on what we achieved this year and look at the year ahead. This year, Spark Sustainability empowered the Donut Crew to save over 348 900 kg CO2-eq via the Carbon Donut app. No bad, huh?

The sustainability criteria that society puts on organisations have tightened over the past few years; there have been new changes in legislation, in addition to which customers and investors demand climate action. At the same time, climate expertise has become a competitive advantage for companies.

The Climate Campaign was kicked off by calculating the institution’s carbon footprint to bring awareness of the current impact and use that as a starting point. Now, the exciting part has started: the team’s climate work has been kicked off with the help of the Carbon Donut app. 

“We strive to nudge people’s behaviour towards more sustainable living practices”, said one interviewee in our market research this spring.

Heat is something we humans can’t go without. However, heating is also one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions resulting from human activities. But why is that and what can we do about it?

The food industry is one of the biggest contributors to climate change: globally, 21–37% of greenhouse gas emissions can be traced back to the food we put on our tables.

Our personal actions have a massive impact when it comes to keeping our planet cool — and to keep our seas clean.

We’ve all heard the lists of things we can change in our lives to mitigate emissions, but how to get started?

When it comes to climate policy, Sally Weaver has a first class seat in her role as a project manager for the Finnish Climate Change Panel.

Spark is proud to be a close supporter of the #OURSEA campaign, which is going to be the largest campaign for the Baltic Sea to date.

The Nordic Council of Ministers, the Nordic Investment Bank and Moomin Characters Ltd all want to improve the state of the Baltic Sea.

This sugar sweet story started with a few guys sharing a passion for surfing. Today they are passionate beekeepers, turning beeswax into environmental-friendly surf wax.

The Finnish general elections are drawing closer! Which political decisions are needed to stop climate change? What do the Finnish parties plan to do about it?

Could there be one single, major solution to all the large environmental problems we keep seeing on the news?

Plastic has changed the world. The low-cost and versatile material has saved millions of lives but also played a significant part in creating a global throwaway society.

"What if our generation doesn't want to consume more? What if we actually want to enjoy the great immaterial things in life; wellbeing, family and friends.”

In order to mitigate climate change, politics and industry do need to change, but these changes can be traced back to the opinions of individuals.

At Spark Sustainability, we’re on a quest to spark collective action on climate change, and we thought we’d kick off 2019 by explaining why that’s such a big deal.

At the age of 19, Sebastian Österman became the main organiser of People’s Climate march in Helsinki.

The scientists have spoken: 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions originate from our daily choices.