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FLIGHT

Decreased CO2-emissions in flight-intensive organisations: from data to practice.

In flight-intensive organizations, many employees travel both frequently and far - resulting in large CO2 emissions. At management level, there is often an awareness and a willingness to change, as expressed for example through internal climate goals. But at those levels in the organization where concrete decisions are made about when, where and how to travel, there is a lack of awareness and tools to manage these challenges.

In this project, we will create and test practical tools to reduce travel-related CO2 emissions, thereby moving from words to action. By using a structured method in combination with analog and digital tools, the project will take stock, visualize, design, plan and mediate negotiations about departmental and individual CO2 emissions and the results will be followed up regularly. The project aims to give flight-intensive organizations greater opportunities to reach or exceed climate targets, thereby contributing to an energy-efficient and sustainable future.

Team

Daniel Pargman
Daniel Pargman Project Manager
Jarmo Laaksolahti
Jarmo Laaksolahti lecturer
Markus Robert
Markus Robert researcher
Elina Eriksson
Elina Eriksson associate professor
Björn Hedin
Björn Hedin associate professor
Aksel Biörn-Hansen
Aksel Biörn-Hansen doctoral student

Funding

Swedish Energy Agency

Project duration

2019 - 2022

Publications

[1]
E. Eriksson, M. Wolrath Söderberg and N. Wormbs, "Exceptionalism and Evasion : How Scholars Reason About Air Travel," in Academic Flying and the Means of Communication, Kristian Bjørkdahl & Adrian Santiago Franco Duharte Ed., : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp. 159-183.
[2]
A. Biørn-Hansen et al., "Exploring the Problem Space of CO2 Emission Reductions from Academic Flying," Sustainability, vol. 13, no. 21, pp. 12206-12206, 2021.
[3]
D. Pargman et al., "From Moore's Law to the Carbon Law," in ICT4S 2020 : Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability, 2020, pp. 285-293.
[4]
E. Eriksson et al., "On the Necessity of Flying and of not Flying: : Exploring how Computer Scientists Reason about Academic Travel," in ICT4S2020: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability, 2020, pp. 18-26.
[5]
D. Pargman et al., "Who Gets to Fly?," in Academic Flying and the Means of Communication, Kristian Bjørkdahl and Adrian Santiago Franco Duharte Ed., Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp. 133-158.