Carbon Footprint Assessment

What is a Carbon Footprint Assessment?

According to ADEME, a carbon footprint assessment is an evaluation of the amount of greenhouse gases emitted (or absorbed) into the atmosphere over a year by the activities of an organisation or a territory.

What is it used for?

It is a way of measuring greenhouse gas emissions, but also of identifying opportunities for improvement in an organisation’s environmental strategy and its efforts to combat climate change.

Since 2012, Article L.229-25 of the French Environmental Code has required public legal entities employing more than 250 people to produce an assessment of their greenhouse gas emissions.

How does it work?

We used our internal data – such as business travel, and information relating to emissions from our campuses and facilities – to produce the carbon footprint assessment.

We included:

A study covering the implementation of all direct and indirect activities across each of the Group’s sites, over a full year of activity
The geographical scope: La Rochelle, Tours, Orléans
The period of analysis: academic year from 01/09/2021 to 31/08/2022

We did not include, due to the difficulty of collecting the necessary data:

The Paris campus, as well as the Niort and Rochefort sites
Visitor-related emissions, owing to a lack of available data (events and other activities)
Fugitive emissions from refrigeration equipment (considered negligible)
Emissions linked to students travelling between their place of study and their family homes (holidays and weekends), due to insufficient data