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@ARTICLE{Mariette:603123,
author = {Mariette, Jérôme and Blanchard, Odile and Berné, Olivier
and Aumont, Olivier and Carrey, Julian and Ligozat,
AnneLaure and Lellouch, Emmanuel and Roche,
Philippe-Emmanuel and Guennebaud, Gaël and Thanwerdas, Joel
and Bardou, Philippe and Salin, Gérald and Maigne, Elise
and Servan, Sophie and Ben-Ari, Tamara},
title = {{A}n open-source tool to assess the carbon footprint of
research},
journal = {Environmental research: infrastructure and sustainability},
volume = {2},
number = {3},
issn = {2634-4505},
address = {[Bristol]},
publisher = {IOP Publishing},
reportid = {PUBDB-2024-00768},
pages = {035008},
year = {2022},
abstract = {The scrutiny over the carbon footprint of research and
higher education has increased rapidly in the last few
years. This has resulted in a series of publications
providing various estimates of the carbon footprint of one
or several research activities, principally at the scale of
a university or a research center or, more recently, a field
of research. The variety of tools or methodologies on which
these estimates rely unfortunately prevents any aggregation
or direct comparison. This is because carbon footprint
assessments are very sensitive to key parameters (e.g.,
emission factors) or hypotheses (e.g., scopes). Hence, it is
impossible to address fundamental questions such as: is the
carbon footprint of research structurally different between
disciplines? Are plane trips a major source of carbon
emissions in academic research? Massive collection and
curation of carbon footprint data, across a large array of
research situations and disciplines, is hence an important,
timely and necessary challenge to answer these questions.
This paper presents a framework to collect and analyse large
amounts of homogeneous research carbon emission data in a
network of research entities at the national scale. It
relies on an open-source web application, GES 1point5,
designed to estimate the carbon footprint of a department,
research lab or team in any country of the world.
Importantly, GES 1point5 is also designed to aggregate all
input data and corresponding GHG emissions estimates into a
comprehensive database. GES 1point5 therefore enables (i)
the identification of robust local or national determinants
of the carbon footprint of research and (ii) the estimation
of the carbon footprint of the entire research sector at
national scale. A preliminary analysis of the carbon
footprint of more than one hundred laboratories in France is
presented to illustrate the potential of the framework. It
shows that the average emissions are 479 t CO$_2$e for a
research lab and 3.6 t CO$_2$e for an average lab member
(respectively 404 and 3.1 t CO$_2$e without accounting for
the indirect radiative effects of aviation), with the
current scope of GES 1point5. Availability and
implementation: GES 1point5 is available online at
http://labos1point5.org/ges-1point5 and its source code can
be downloaded from the GitLab platform at
https://framagit.org/labos1point5/l1p5-vuejs.},
cin = {IT},
ddc = {333.7},
cid = {I:(DE-H253)IT-20120731},
pnm = {623 - Data Management and Analysis (POF4-623)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-623},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-H253)TIER-II-20150101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:001059333200001},
doi = {10.1088/2634-4505/ac84a4},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/603123},
}