🏛️ Governance

Ilmastovahti — Helsinki Climate Watch

Launched in October 2019, Ilmastovahti let anyone track the status of Helsinki's climate actions toward carbon neutrality by 2030, with emissions down 45% since 1990 — and the city's own review found only a handful of the original 147 actions materially cut emissions. The dashboard is no longer online: its domain stopped resolving and its open-source frontend repository was archived in October 2025. The underlying emissions monitoring continues on the city's main climate site.

Completed 📅 since 2019

🤖 AI-generated summary of the sources below — how this works · 🔎 Last verified 2026-08-02

🏛️ Governance Open data Digital government Citizen participation

📊 Impact

Direct emissions down 45% vs. 1990 baseline (as of 2023/24 reporting); city forecasts 81-83% reduction achievable by 2030.

🎓 Lesson

A transparency dashboard is only as durable as someone's willingness to keep hosting it. Helsinki's outlived its own software: the emissions reporting moved on, the public tracker quietly stopped resolving.

Evidence🏛️ Official

Scale🏙️ City-wide

📖 Terms in this entry: Civic participation platform · Digital identity · Open data

Sources

↗ City of Helsinki — emissions reduction plan monitoring (authority)The city's current climate site, which still carries the emissions monitoring the dashboard used to front.

↗ City of Helsinki — forecast on the 2030 carbon-neutrality target (authority)City news release on progress toward the 2030 target.

↗ City-of-Helsinki/cnh-ui — Ilmastovahti frontend (source code)The dashboard's own open-source frontend; the repository was archived in October 2025. Together with the domain no longer resolving, this is the basis for the completed status.

↗ CityChangers.org — climate action plans (reference)Third-party write-up describing Ilmastovahti while it was running.

This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed above and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Ilmastovahti — Helsinki Climate Watch” — Helsinki, Finland. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/helsinki-climate-watch-dashboard/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.

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