Dr Carbon
Monitoring and communication
- Hold termly Dr Carbon meetings which report to our termly all staff meeting.
- Annual carbon budget estimate and update.
- Refining methodologies to estimate carbon footprint of staff and student commuting, cloud storage and computing and supercomputing use.
- Communicating our progress through the Dr Carbon website
Lobbying
- Asking our funders to consider subsidising low-carbon travel and considering funds for offsetting.
- Asking international science organisations to report on and reduce the carbon footprint of scientific meetings and workshops.
- Asking the University to appoint a travel supplier with expertise in low-carbon travel.
- Asking the University and funders to consider the impact of wording about international travel on promotion criteria and advice to grant reviewers.
Travel
- A policy for additional time-off for staff who choose low-carbon travel to compensate for additional travel time.
- Tools for staff to plan low-carbon travel and to consider if travel is necessary on the Dr Carbon website.
- Communicate the carbon footprint of travel to staff at booking stage.
- Trial and run online seminars.
See CO2 widget by Matthew Shribman
CO2 20 Feb 2025
1000 yrs 20 yrs
300 ppm 400 ppm
1000 AD 1500 AD Now
7-day average 427.3ppm
In last 2 years
+6.4ppm