Pasi Laitala

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Pasi Laitala is the Chief Sustainability Officer at City of Espoo, one of Finland’s leading municipalities in sustainable urban development and digital innovation. He leads the city’s sustainable development strategy, with a focus on climate action, urban transformation, and public sector innovation. Pasi studied Real Estate Development at Aalto University, formerly known as Helsinki University of Technology.

Pasi Laitala

May 16 2026

There’s no way around cities in Europe’s climate and competitiveness push – governments must empower them to deliver

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Corporate Governance · Corporate Social Responsibility

Europe’s €500 billion annual investment gap will be closed in Europe’s cities, not in Brussels. That will require national governments to give cities the power, financing tools and certainty to deliver