... education institutions develop their strategies in three main areas: (i) implementing environmental management systems; (ii) promoting education for sustainability; and (iii) reducing the carbon footprint. Design/methodology/approach This qualitative study adopted a participatory action research...

... education Carbon sequestration Carbon footprint Civil engineering education Outdoor activity-based learning Educational institutions are fundamental in enabling students to meet the sustainability challenges (Al Mahameed et al., 2023) in a world with limited resources and innovation...

... on curricula for SECC in higher education, the analysis has identified several potential research areas, such as interdisciplinary research, transformative education, carbon footprint, students and higher education community well-being, climate change mitigation curriculum and behavioral studies...

... and policies in higher education institutions and contribute to a much-needed baseline against which mitigation efforts can be compared with. Unlike other studies, this study goes beyond the carbon footprint, expanding the discussion to additional environmental and human health impact categories by applying...

... targets and the timing of actions and consider their contextual opportunities and obstacles. Originality/value Comparing university carbon footprints and carbon neutrality plans is an emerging topic, presenting methodological and institutional difficulties. This paper reveals some...

...Veronica Lucia Ahonen; Aleksandra Woszczek; Stefan Baumeister; Ulla T. Helimo; Anne Kristiina Jackson; Maria Kopsakangas-Savolainen; Juha Kääriä; Tommi Lehtonen; Mika Luoranen; Eva Pongrácz; Risto Soukka; Veera Vainio; Sami El Geneidy Purpose Calculating an organization's carbon footprint...

...Paulo Guilherme Fuchs; Manoel Honorato Filho; Liziane Araújo da Silva; Ana Regina Aguiar Dutra; José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra Purpose Universities and their actions affect the environment directly and significantly. Therefore, the carbon footprint (CF) needs to be implemented...

...Liziane Araújo da Silva; Ana Regina de Aguiar Dutra; Thiago Coelho Soares; Robert Samuel Birch; José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra Purpose Reducing our carbon footprint (CF) or decarbonizing is a sustainable development goal. Although there has been an increase in research...

... to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence maybe seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Daily commuting trips of higher education (HE) students account for a large proportion of the carbon footprint of a HE institution...

...Alejandro Gallego-Schmid; Ximena C. Schmidt Rivera; Laurence Stamford Purpose The implementation of life cycle assessment (LCA) and carbon footprinting represents an important professional and research opportunity for chemical engineers, but this is not broadly reflected in chemical engineering...

... changes in daily operations, implement interdisciplinary research, incorporate sustainability into teaching and education and enhance outreach programs. Strong commitment from all stakeholders resulted in reduction of the university’s carbon footprint from 8,985 to 4,167 tCO_2e year⁻¹...