Offsetting the impact
of travel to HBS and beyond

So far 71 trips have offset

73,191kg of carbon credits

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That’s the same climate impact as

1,210

new trees planted

16.0

cars off the road for a year

9.2

homes’ annual energy usage

182

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

65,871.9 kg

90%

Nature-based Removals

6,953.1 kg

9.5%

Technology-based Removals

366 kg

0.5%

Projects supported

Technology-based Reductions

5 projects · 65,871.9 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.