BIRA-IASB Carbon Footprint for 2024

In its commitment to limiting the environmental impact of its activities, BIRA-IASB has developed a greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory and estimated the institute’s carbon footprint for the year 2024. The footprint is measured in tonnes of CO₂ equivalent (tCO₂eq), a standard unit for measuring greenhouse gases based on their warming effect compared to CO₂.

The total estimated carbon footprint is 1095 tCO₂eq, distributed as follows:

• Purchases (excluding digital devices) : 551 tCO₂eq
• Business travel : 301 tCO₂eq
• Buildings (energy use and water consumption) : 139 tCO₂eq
• Commuting : 85 tCO₂eq
• Digital devices (excluding their electricity consumption) : 19 tCO₂eq

The carbon footprint per staff member is 6.1 tCO₂eq and the carbon intensity is 58 gCO₂eq/€.

These figures are indicative and represent orders of magnitude. They cover only the organisational perimeter —i.e., the facilities directly operated by the institute, where actionable levers for reduction exist. The estimates were generated using the open source tool GES 1point5 developed by Labos 1point5, an international and interdisciplinary collective of academic researchers.