Franklin University Switzerland
OP-15: Air Travel
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15.1. Air travel reduction and mitigation
Narrative and/or website URL providing an overview of the institution’s incentives designed to encourage employees to reduce their air travel:
Has the institution adopted restrictive measures designed to reduce the GHG emissions associated with its directly financed air travel?:
Narrative and/or website URL providing an overview of the institution’s restrictive measures designed to reduce its air travel emissions:
Franklin's ACT Program, provides incentive for Professors leading Academic Travel trip to decarbonize their trips. Academic Travel is Franklin's greatest carbon emission source. In order to reach carbon neutrality, Franklin needs to reduce its emissions, but it cannot give up on its AT program, which is a core component of the curriculum at the university. The GO designed the ACT (Academic Travel Carbon Trading) Program to address AT's climate impact.
The unique feature of the ACT Program is that it is a stakeholder carbon market, which targets carbon offsetting projects specific to the university (also known as insetting). The design of the program aligns the 'insetting' projects funded by the program’s carbon credits closely to the interests of university stakeholders.
The ACT Program is composed of three parts:
Calculate: It starts with understanding your carbon footprint when you travel. With your help, the Green Office will calculate every academic travel's carbon footprint this year. When you know your impact on the environment, you can commit to reduce or offset that impact.
Reduce: Commit to reducing the carbon footprint generated by your AT trip by identifying ways to travel more sustainably. The Green Office is compiling a list of resources that we will make available to the FUS community.
Offset: Dedicate a portion of your travel budget to a carbon credit through the Green Office. The ACT carbon credits will be applied to a campus program that reduces or eliminates FUS-generated carbon emissions on-site. By participating in the ACT program, your trade will help to reduce the total amount of carbon emissions generated by the FUS community each year by supporting programs that reduce emissions generated by the FUS community elsewhere.
Although this program does not offer financial incentives to reduce air travel during academic travel (AT), the Office of Sustainability believes that the Academic Travel (ACT) program still encourages professors to make their trips more sustainable. This is because they recognize that minimizing carbon emissions from academic travel is a crucial goal for Franklin, and our professors are dedicated to making the university more sustainable.
Does the institution have a program designed to mitigate the GHG emissions associated with its directly financed air travel?:
Narrative and/or website URL providing an overview of the institution’s air travel mitigation program:
Franklin's ACT Program, provides incentive for Professors leading Academic Travel trip to decarbonize their trips. Academic Travel is Franklin's greatest carbon emission source. In order to reach carbon neutrality, Franklin needs to reduce its emissions, but it cannot give up on its AT program, which is a core component of the curriculum at the university. The GO designed the ACT (Academic Travel Carbon Trading) Program to address AT's climate impact.
The unique feature of the ACT Program is that it is a stakeholder carbon market, which targets carbon offsetting projects specific to the university (also known as insetting). The design of the program aligns the 'insetting' projects funded by the program’s carbon credits closely to the interests of university stakeholders.
The ACT Program is composed of three parts:
Calculate: It starts with understanding your carbon footprint when you travel. With your help, the Green Office will calculate every academic travel's carbon footprint this year. When you know your impact on the environment, you can commit to reduce or offset that impact.
Reduce: Commit to reducing the carbon footprint generated by your AT trip by identifying ways to travel more sustainably. The Green Office is compiling a list of resources that we will make available to the FUS community.
Offset: Dedicate a portion of your travel budget to a carbon credit through the Green Office. The ACT carbon credits will be applied to a campus program that reduces or eliminates FUS-generated carbon emissions on-site. By participating in the ACT program, your trade will help to reduce the total amount of carbon emissions generated by the FUS community each year by supporting programs that reduce emissions generated by the FUS community elsewhere.
Although this program does not offer financial incentives to reduce air travel during academic travel (AT), the Office of Sustainability believes that the Academic Travel (ACT) program still encourages professors to make their trips more sustainable. This is because they recognize that minimizing carbon emissions from academic travel is a crucial goal for Franklin, and our professors are dedicated to making the university more sustainable.
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