Climate accounts
Here you can read HVL's climate accounts and learn more about how we work with sustainability.
- Through the Paris Agreement of 2015, the Ministry of Education and Research expects that HVL is committed to and systematically working on reducing our greenhouse gas emissions.
- HVL has had climate accounts since 2019.
- The accounts show that our highest emissions are within the categories of purchasing, transport and travel, and operation and maintenance of our university buildings, which we lease from Statsbygg. This means that it is within these categories that we need to implement measures to reduce emissions as much as possible.
- In the Action Plan for Sustainable Development 2023-2026, the HVL board has decided that we will reduce emissions by 40 percent from 2019 levels. This means that we will reduce emissions about 10 000 tons of CO2e by the end of 2026.
- The climate accounts of HVL have been prepared by Asplan Viak.
Emissions over time
This figure illustrates the development of HVL's climate accounts over time, the years 2015 to 2018 is to be excluded.
*The category of buildings has seen an increase between 2023 and 2024, as the model in 2024 was expanded to also include emissions from capital (depreciation) in the emission factors. Since capital is a particularly important contribution in the building category, this leads to a significant increase here.
