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Follow-up of environmental objectives

Published: 16 November 2017

SLU has defined shared environmental objectives within the areas of energy, procurement, education for sustainable development, business travel and environmental monitoring and assessment (EMA).

The latest follow-up shows largely positive results, such as a reduction in air travel – a first. As air travel has been increasing for several years, it is too early to say whether this is a temporary drop or a trend.

The follow-up is largely positive, for example regarding the combined emissions from all air travel: Compared to the end of Q2 2013, at the end of Q2 2017 we had reduced our air travel by 19 per cent per employee.

Read more about our environmental objectives.