Offsetting the impact
of travel to HBS and beyond

So far 70 trips have offset

71,340kg of carbon credits

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That’s the same climate impact as

1,179

new trees planted

15.5

cars off the road for a year

9.0

homes’ annual energy usage

177

flights from LA to New York

* calculations based on U.S. EPA formulas

Our approach

The portfolio includes carbon credits highly rated by Calyx Global (a leading carbon credit rater recommended by Harvard’s Office for Sustainability). It is designed to deliver climate impact along with health and wellbeing benefits (all priorities in Harvard’s Sustainability Action Plan); and a small investment in promising but unrated, higher-risk long-term removal projects to catalyze the market. Questions? Email sustainability@hbs.edu.

Portfolio allocation

Technology-based Reductions

64,206 kg

90%

Nature-based Removals

6,777.3 kg

9.5%

Technology-based Removals

356.7 kg

0.5%

Projects supported

Technology-based Reductions

4 projects · 64,206 kg

This category covers a wide range of projects that aim to reduce and avoid emissions versus business as usual. Examples include: natural gas leak repairs, destruction of refrigerants that would otherwise be vented to the atmosphere, and capture of methane emitted from landfills.