ICM Uni Graz
ICM Uni Graz is the pioneering practical project of the new Institutional Carbon Management (ICM) concept at the University of Graz. Building on its own carbon management research, the university is thus taking up the challenge of successfully making its own contribution to globally successful climate protection.
Objective
In order to achieve the Paris climate target of limiting global warming to well below 2°C with a target of 1.5°C, far-reaching climate protection contributions are needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at global, governmental, institutional and personal level. Research and development on carbon management, including specifically on Institutional Carbon Management (ICM ), is concerned with this. The ICM UniGraz project builds on this.
Embedded in the "Sustainable University of Graz" strategy and as an innovative co-designer of the Alliance of Sustainable Universities, the University of Graz has planned a professional ICM for 2021 to 2030 on this basis to achieve its climate protection goals by 2030 in line with Austrian and European targets.
Implementation
The ICM Uni Graz project implements this objective and this plan in order to reduce the university's greenhouse gas emissions by around two thirds by 2030 compared to a 2020 reference budget. The overarching ambitious implementation milestones are Net-zero emissions by 2030 and climate neutrality by 2040. Detailed information on the areas of responsibility and the status of ICM UniGraz's work can be found in the current (April 2021) Wegener Center Research Brief "Carbon Management: a new approach to achieve Paris-compliant climate goals". It also contains information on the status and progress of ICM UniGraz in the German-language brief/executive summary.
The University of Graz sees itself as an innovative pioneer, role model and source of expertise for supporting other institutions (public institutions such as universities, but also private companies and organizations) in achieving their climate goals with its carbon management research, and in particular with the ICM Uni Graz project.
Short videos on the topic
- Intro: Carbon Management with Gottfried Kirchengast
- How can private individuals reduce greenhouse gases? - Personal Carbon Management with Stefanie Hölbling
- How can greenhouse gas reduction succeed? with Gottfried Kirchengast
- Where do greenhouse gas emissions occur at the Wegener Center? | What are we doing at the Wegener Center to mitigate climate change? with Stefanie Hölbling
- From the Wegener Center to the whole University of Graz with Julia Danzer
Core team
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Affiliated contributors
- Peter Riedler (overall management EMAS & ICM UniGraz),
- Ralph Zettl (Head of Operational Implementation EMAS & ICM Uni Graz),
- Martina Tschuchnik (Sustainability Coordinator & Support ICM Uni Graz);
- Ralph Aschemann (project consulting/co-support for ICM & Life Cycle Assessment),
- Melanie Harrer (ICM UniGraz Master's thesis on Emission Group Third Party Services);
- Karl Steininger (project consulting on ICM & economics),
- Rupert Baumgartner (project consultancy on ICM & sustainability management),
- Alfred Posch (project consulting on ICM & transformation research);
- Harald Stelzer (project consulting on ICM & knowledge transfer).
Partners
Within the University of Graz: Vice-Rectorate for Finance, Human Resources and Site Development (VR-FPS, Peter Riedler & team), Directorate for Resources and Planning (DRP, Ralph Zettl & EMAS team), Department of Performance and Quality Management (LQM, Andreas Raggautz & team), Office of the University and Travel Management (AUR, Ralph Duschek & team), with the support of the Rector and Rectorate and other departments and institutes of the University of Graz.
ICM research: Integrated in carbon management research at the University of Graz, as well as in cooperation with external partners. These partners include the Alliance of Sustainable Universities in Austria, in particular TU Graz, the climate research network CCCA, the mobility platform of ETH Zurich (CH) and other relevant national and international research institutions.
Information on working with personal data
11 September 2020. In order to reliably determine the share of the mobility sector in the university's total emissions within the framework of ICM Uni Graz, the resulting greenhouse gas emissions are calculated from employees' business travel data. The Wegener Center ICM team, as the only team authorized to process data, uses anonymized data on the travel activities of university staff in compliance with data protection regulations. The relevant data is made available to the Wegener-Center-ICM team in anonymized form by the HR department/travel management. The data is aggregated into statistical data and processed further and the original files with the anonymized data on travel activities are then deleted.
The works council for academic university staff and the works council for general university staff at the University of Graz have approved the corresponding data processing by agreeing to a relevant system description. Interested parties can find the information on this in the University of Graz Gazette of 19.08.2020 (issue no. 43 / 327).
Employees of the University of Graz can find GDPR-related information on the processing of travel data and information about their rights in this data protection information.