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SV Sustainability Office

The SV Sustainability Office, with the support of the Vice Presidency for Responsible Transformation and EPFL Sustainability , is committed to guiding the School of Life Sciences (SV) on the path to carbon neutrality. Together, we can make research and our daily activities more environmentally friendly! Learn about the history and motivations behind the school’s sustainability initiative.

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The Green Lab Project

The School of life sciences seeks to calculate and reduce CO2 emissions from its laboratories. Check out the latest report!

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Travel Less Without Loss

An initiative of the School of life sciences to reduce the CO2 footprint of business travel.

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Going Green in a Wet Lab : Symbolic vs High-Impact Actions

Published:14.12.20 — In this article, a PhD candidate in biochemistry explains us how she launched a consultancy on sustainability in science. According to her, avoiding single-use plastics is a priority, but many other actions should be done.

Turning pandemic habits into a commercial concept for climate

Published:17.11.20 — The Geneva Climathon led to the creation of the Air Smiles concept, aimed at rewarding those who choose to participate in an online rather than a physical conference.

A tool for scientists to reduce their carbon footprint

Published:20.10.20 — French researchers, gathered within the Labs 1point5 collective, launched on Thursday a tool to enable the scientific community to estimate and reduce its carbon footprint, in order to fight against global warming.

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