... 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...

... active agents of positive change in the fight against global warming. 18 09 2024 03 04 2025 14 04 2025 © 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Sustainability education Carbon sequestration Carbon footprint Civil...

... 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...

.... Sustainability Carbon footprint Higher education institutions Carbon-neutral university Forest carbon sequestration Based on the experiences of Greifswald University, this paper presents major challenges and success lessons learned during the process of gradual institutional transformation to achieve...