HELSINKI, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- Environmentally friendly heat and power generation developed in Finland will be introduced to all at the U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen next week, a local newspaper reported on Thursday.

    According to Helsinki Times, Finland's chief negotiator on climate change Sirkka Haunia will outline Helsinki Energy Company's idea of combined heat and power (CHP) generation as an example of the northern European country's efforts to cut greenhouse gases.

    "Using combined heat and power generation reduces the use of natural resources and diminishes emissions as the efficiency can exceed 90 per cent. Compared with separate production, CHP achieves reductions of about 40 per cent in carbon-dioxide emissions and fuel costs," the company's CEO Seppo Ruohonen was quoted as saying by the Helsinki Times.

    "In the climate issue, the whole energy chain needs to be considered from consumption to production. By energy, we need to understand not only electricity but also heating, cooling and transport," Ruohonen said, adding all these energy and primary resources needed to be used wisely and sparingly.

    The report also mentioned the company's trigeneration use of energy, a process that produces district heat, cooling and electricity.

    The ultimate goal of trigeneration is to achieve carbon-neutral production of energy. As one of the largest energy companies in Finland, Helsinki Energy Company has set a target of carbon-neutral production by 2050.

    "A joint venture of Helsinki Energy Company and EPV Energy Company is building large wind farms of 5,000 megawatts to 1 gigawatt on the coasts of the Gulf of Bothnia and the Gulf of Finland," the CEO added.

    Helsinki Energy Company has been using CHP generation for over half a century.

    Currently, 85 percent of the electricity and 90 percent of heat in Helsinki are produced in combined generation plants, and 93 percent of the city's buildings are connected to district heating.