Offsetting the impact
of travel to HBS and beyond
So far 41 trips have offset
44,299
kg of CO2e
That’s the same climate impact as:
732
new trees planted
9.9
cars off the road for a year
5.6
homes’ annual energy usage
159
flights from LA to New York
* calculations based on U.S. EPA and ICAO formulas
90%
Emissions reductions
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 a health and equity benefit (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.
Emissions reductions
Gaziantep Landfill Gas Project
This project collects landfill gas to generate 5.655MW of electricity at a landfill serving Gaziantep City, Turkey, avoiding the emission of methane (a potent greenhouse gas) into the atmosphere and using the methane to generate power and displace dirtier fossil-fuel-driven power in the electric grid.
39,869.1 kg
Gaziantep City, Turkey
Nature-based removal
Delta Blue Carbon
The largest restoration project in the world, Delta Blue seeks to restore 225,000 hectares of land through large-scale mangrove restoration on the Indus Delta in Pakistan.
4,208.41 kg
Sindh, Pakistan
Long-lived removal
Frontier Carbon Removal Portfolio
Frontier is an advance market commitment to buy $1B+ of permanent carbon removal between 2022 and 2030. It aims to accelerate the development of carbon removal technologies by guaranteeing future demand for them. The goal is to send a strong demand signal to researchers, entrepreneurs, and investors that there is a growing market for these technologies.
221.5 kg
South San Francisco, California, United States
UN Sustainable Development Goals
Our projects support the following UN Sustainable Development Goals
