{"id":21268,"date":"2023-09-20T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/en\/?post_type=news&p=21268"},"modified":"2025-02-04T11:01:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:01:45","slug":"greenhouse-gas-emissions-report-2019","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/en\/news\/greenhouse-gas-emissions-report-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sustainable development is one of the priority areas of the University of Luxembourg in its 2020-2029 strategic framework. One of the objectives is to establish the institutions\u2019 contributions to the national and European roadmaps towards a climate-neutral and resource-efficient development.
As a first step, the University has set out to better understand the greenhouse gas emissions generated by its activities, operations, and resources. The report presents the calculation of the University\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions for 2019 \u2013 the last year before the Covid 19 pandemic reduced activity and imposed mobility restrictions.
This analysis provides a baseline of the volume of the University\u2019s GHG emissions, making it possible to identify the sources of emissions and determine the hotspots on which to take effective priority actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The calculation for this analysis is based on the recommendations of the IPCC on the quantification and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions, and on the GHG Protocol and the Bilan Carbone. Given the specificities of higher education and research institutions, we decided to compute greenhouse gas emissions as closely as possible to the activities developed by the University. The categorisation does not therefore correspond exactly to the recommendations of each of these guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nOverall results<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 2019, the University’s activities generated 44,080 tons of CO2<\/sub> equivalent (tCO2<\/sub>e)<\/strong> in direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions, with a margin of error of 16%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Direct emissions generated by the University’s resources using fossil fuels (Scope 1-fig.1<\/strong>) represent 1% of total emissions, or 558 tCO2e. Indirect emissions linked to the consumption of energy for the University’s activities (Scope 2-fig.1<\/strong>) represent 10% of emissions, or 4,558 tCO2. Finally, other indirect emissions generated by and for the University\u2019s operations (Scope 3-fig.1<\/strong>) account for 89%, or 38,964 tCO2e, of total emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nPreliminary observations and proposed areas of action<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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