Carbon Footprint Assessment

What is a Carbon Footprint Assessment?

According to ADEME, the French Environment and Energy Management Agency, a carbon footprint assessment evaluates the amount of greenhouse gases emitted into, or removed from, the atmosphere over one year as a result of the activities of an organisation or region.

What is it used for?

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

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

How does it work?

We used our internal data, including travel data and information on emissions from our campuses and premises, to carry out the carbon footprint assessment.

We took into account:

The study covers the implementation of all direct and indirect activities generated by each of the Group’s sites over a full year of activity
The geographical scope: La Rochelle, Tours, Orléans, Paris - Cachan
The analysis period: the academic year from 01/09/2024 to 31/08/2025

We did not take into account, due to the complexity of collecting the data:

Visitor-related emissions, due to a lack of available data (events and other activities)
Fugitive emissions from refrigeration equipment, which were considered negligible

We have improved data collection compared with the previous Carbon Footprint Assessment:

Data relating to emissions linked to students travelling between their place of study and their family home (return trips during holidays and weekends), which had previously been unavailable due to a lack of data;
Data relating to students’ commuting between home and their place of study.