1. Green Office
© Antti Lappo / WWF-Finland
A WWF Initiative to Reduce
Ecological Footprint

2. © Juan Carlos Munez / WWF-Canon
Building a future in which
humans live in harmony
with nature.

3. Energy Efficiency in Mitigating Climate Change
100 %
• Improvements in end-
use efficiency
80 %
contribute for more
Increased renewables in
power generation than 50 % of decrease
60 % Increased nuclear in power
generation
in emissions
Changes in the fossil-fuel
mix in power generation
• Use of renewables
40 %
Fuel switching in end uses contribute for 20% up
End-use efficiency gains to 2030
20 %
0%
World OECD Transition Developing
economies countries
Source: IEA, Energy Technology Perspectives
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4. Life Expectancies of World Reserves
Examples of Some Mineral Commodities
Mineral* 0% 2% 5%
Coal 216 84 49
Crude oil 44 31 23
Natural gas 64 41 29
Aluminium 202 81 48
Copper 28 22 18
Iron 132 65 41
* Life expectancy in years with three different primary production growth rates
Sources: Tilton (2002); US Bureau of mines (1977); US Geological Survey (2000a); US Geological Survey (2000b); American Institute (2000); BP
Amoco (2000); International Energy Agency (2000)
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5. Living Planet Report 2012 (1/2)
• Global ecological
footprint is about 1,5
times higher than
world’s biocapacity
• Global ecological
footprint has more
than doubled between
1961 and 2007
Source: Global Footprint Network, 2011 (Living Planet Report 2012)

6. Living Planet Report 2012 (2/2)
10 largest ecological footprints:
(country/person):
• Ecological footprint
1. Qatar (county/person)
2. Kuwait
3. United Arab Emirates • Finland 11st
4. Denmark
5. USA • Sweden 13rd and Norway 24th
6. Belgium
7. Australia • If everyone lived like an average
8. Canada
9. Netherlands resident of the USA, a total of four
10. Ireland
Earths would be needed to
regenerate humanity’s annual
demand of nature.
Source: Global Footprint Network (Living Planet Report 2012)

7. Green Office and
WWF’s targets 1/3
Reduce the consumption
of natural resources by
improving offices’
environmental efficiency
© Roger Leguen / WWF-Canon

8. Green Office and
WWF’s targets 2/3
Promote climate change
mitigation by requiring
energy saving and
use of renewable
energy sources
© Chris Martin Bahr / WWF-Canon

9. Promote sustainable
© Katrin Havia / WWF Finland
practices by increasing
environmental awareness
of employees
Green Office and
WWF’s targets 3/3

10. What is Green Office?
• A practical environmental
management system developed by
WWF Finland specifically for office
conditions
• WWF’s way to help and support the
challenging work of environmental
managers
© Michel Gunther/ WWF-Canon
• An education programme that inspires
employees to adopt environmentally
friendly habits
• A meaningful way to diminish the
expenses
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11. Green Office Services
• Information and support for EMS implementation
• Regular office inspections
• Tools
• Webtool Compass
• Climate Calculator
• Consumer Habit Questionnaire
• Network meetings
© Michel Gunther/ WWF-Canon
• Regular Green Office tips
• Limited right to use the Green Office logo and
the Green Office diploma
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12. Green Office Step by Step
GO contract;
naming GO 1. Office inspection
contact person;
admission fee
Practical
implementation;
communication; Maintaining,
Forming GO team Annual
training; developing and
reporting
instructions; updating
monitoring
Assessment form Environmental
programme
Office inspection
(in head offices
every 3 years)
Actions,
Goals and targets coordinators,
timetables
Implementation of Green Office takes approximately 7-10 months Continuous improvement
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13. Green Office Criteria 1/2
• Select a Green Office coordinator and
a Green Office team
• Plan a practical environmental
programme
© Katrin Havia / WWF Finland
• Improve energy efficiency continuously
• Reduce waste, recycle and sort out
waste according to local requirements
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14. Green Office Criteria 2/2
• Create guidelines for green procurement
• Inform and educate personnel about
Green Office practices
• Aspire towards continuous improvement
© Peik Hovi / WWF Finland
in environmental matters
• Choose the indicators, set numeric
objectives and monitor the fulfillment
of the objectives
• Update environmental programme
annually
• Report indicator data to WWF annually
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15. Network Around the World
• China • Romania
• Estonia • Sweden
• Indonesia • Switzerland
• Latvia • Turkey
• Pakistan • Vietnam
© Juan Carlos Del Olmo / WWF-Spain
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16. Paper (1/2)
• Impacts on environment
• Ecological footprint
• Forestry emphasises timber production > impoverishing
nature
• Most of the fibres used are from tropic areas
• Carbon footprint
• Energy consumption
• Rejuvenation of the forests decreases amount of carbon
© Mauri Rautkari / WWF-Canon
storages
• Paper’s lifecycle is short and paper is poor carbon storage
• Water footprint
• Water consumption
• Bleaching process
• Organic waste consumes oxygen

17. Paper (2/2)
• What can an office do in practice?
• Avoid printing
• Print and copy on both sides and several pages on
one sheet
• Increase the amount of electrical data
management
• Prefer recycled and FSC certified paper or at least
© Katrin Havia / WWF Finland
environmetal certified paper

18. Electricity Consumption
• Impacts on environment
• Greenhouse gases caused by the production
• What can an office do in practice?
• Optimising lighting
• Installing motion detectors
• Timing lighting
• Considering energy comsumption of office appliances
© Katrin Havia / WWF Finland
• Energy-saving settings
• Optimising air-conditioning/cooling
• Choosing electricity produced with renewables
• Compensating

19. Heating Energy
• Impacts on environment
• Greenhouse gases cause by the production
• What can an office do in practice?
• Lowering of room temperature by 1ºC saves 5 % of heating energy
• No furniture in front of radiators
• Air-conditioning
• Timing air-conditioning
• Heat recovery systems
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20. Transportation
• Impacts on environment
• Greenhouse gases
• Air quality
• What can an office do in practice?
• Favouring public transport, bicycle and
walking
• Using long distance meeting
techniques
© Katrin Havia / WWF Finland
• Low emission car and economical
driving
• Compensating
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21. Procurement
• Impacts on environment
• Consuming natural resources
• Environmental effects of production
• What can an office do in practice?
• Services
• Appliances
• Office supplies and furniture
•
© Katrin Havia / WWF Finland
Food procurement
• Accommodation
• Trips
• Gifts
• Materials
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22. Waste Sorting and Recycling
• Decreases consumption
of natural recourses and
amount of greenhouse
gases
• What can an office do in
practice?
1. Avoid producing waste
2. Reusing
© Katrin Havia / WWF Finland
3. Recycling of materials
4. Energy waste
5. Landfills
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23. Water Consumption
• Impacts on environment
• Diminishing supplies of fresh water
• Environmental impacts of purifying > chemicals
• Energy consumption of heating > greenhouse gases
• What can an office do in practice?
• Monitoring consumption of water
• Water saving fittings
© Pauliina Heinänen / WWF-Finland
• Shower
• Toilet seat
• Water saving devices
• Dishwasher
• Water recycling and harvesting
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24. More Information
wwf.fi/green_office
Pictures © 2012, WWF.