{"id":1341,"date":"2020-06-05T09:50:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T08:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x-ifu.irap.omp.eu\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2021-02-25T09:46:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T09:46:10","slug":"world-environment-day-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-ifu.irap.omp.eu\/fr\/outreach\/world-environment-day-2020","title":{"rendered":"Our commitments for World Environment Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

On World Environment Day<\/strong>, it is a perfect opportunity to share our efforts to reduce the environmental impact of the X-IFU Consortium, and in particular our experience as testing ground for a new travel footprint calculator.<\/p>\n

Since 2019, our main environmental commitment is to reduce the travel footprint of the Consortium members for X-IFU activities. X-IFU\u2019s Principal Investigator, Didier Barret, has developed a un calculateur d'empreinte de voyage<\/a> afin d'aider la communaut\u00e9 scientifique \u00e0 r\u00e9duire son impact sur l'environnement. Il a d'abord \u00e9t\u00e9 test\u00e9 pour les d\u00e9placements vers les r\u00e9unions X-IFU afin de mieux comprendre l'empreinte exacte des d\u00e9placements du consortium. En tant que partenariat international, avec des membres bas\u00e9s sur trois continents, impliquant de nombreux d\u00e9placements, il s'agissait d'un terrain d'essai id\u00e9al.<\/p>\n

Thanks to this tool, it was estimated that the yearly travel footprint of the Consortium was around 500 tons of Co2-eq<\/strong>. It also allowed us to evaluate the site of minimum emissions for the organization of future meetings.<\/p>\n

This prompted important discussions between members regarding the steps to take in order to reduce this amount. Last year, it was thus decided by the Consortium board and in agreement with members to:<\/p>\n