The following list includes the most significant of them.
International business partners
Fortum is a member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). The WBCSD’s members include over 150 international companies representing more than 20 sectors and 30 countries.
Fortum’s representatives participate in the working groups of the Eurelectric electricity industry organisation.
Within the framework of RECS International (Renewable Energy Certificate System), Fortum is working with some 90 other, mainly European, companies to prepare rules and a system for the international trade of renewable energy certificates.
Fortum is a shareholder in the World Bank’s Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF), which invests in CO2 reducing projects in Eastern Europe (joint implementation) and in developing countries (clean development mechanisms).The emissions reductions achieved by the PCF are distributed to shareholders according to their share of ownership.
Fortum is a member of the Business Leaders’ Initiative 3C (Combat Climate Change). The 3C Initiative is a global opinion group consisting of companies showing leadership by demanding an integration of climate issues into the world of markets and trade facilitated by means of a global framework coming into force in 2013. Today 40 companies from 11 countries on 4 continents participate in the initiative.
Fortum is a member of the World Energy Council (WEC) via the national committees in Sweden and Finland.
As a member of the Finnish Energy Industries, we also take part in the activities of the European Atomic Forum (FORATOM), which is the Brussels-based trade association for the nuclear energy industry in Europe.
We are also members of Euroheat & Power which unites the combined heat and power, district heating and cooling sector throughout Europe and beyond, with members from over thirty countries.
Finnish business partners
Fortum is also a member of the Finnish Energy Industries ET, which is an organisation for companies involved in power and heat generation, procurement, transmission, sales and the building of power transmission grids.
Additionally, Fortum cooperates with the Confederation of Finnish Industries, EK.
Swedish business partners
In Sweden, Fortum is a member of the power producers’ branch organisation Svensk Energi and of the district heat producers’ organisation Svensk Fjärrvärme. In addition, Fortum participates in Elforsk and Värmeforsk, which are energy sector research organisations. Fortum also has representatives in some committees and R&D programmes of the Swedish Energy Agency.
Polish business partners
In Poland, Fortum is a member of the following organisations: Scandinavian-Polish Chamber of Commerce, Polish Platform of Clean Coal Technologies, Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Czestochowa and Silesian District Chamber of Civil Engineers.
Russian business partners
In Russia, Fortum is a member of the following organisations: Market Council for organising efficient system of trading at wholesale and retail electricity and capacity market, Council of Power Producers, The Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Association of the European Businesses in the Russian Federation.