CANIE - CANIE

Organization Type: Institution

Specific Department Signing: Interregional Academy of Personnel Management

Organization/Department URL: https://maup.com.ua/eng/index.html

Link to Organizational Sustainability Plan: https://sustainability.maup.com.ua/assets/files/strategies-for-sustainable-devel

Leadership and Influencing - 3/14

Better - 3/3

Collaborate to design policy options to incentivise and drive climate conscious practices across the sector. For example, through support or funding for think tanks, research, and other new or existing initiatives;

Work with partners to develop programming to increase resilience to the effects of climate change in host communities;

Identify policy options within Signatory’s scope of influence to incentivise and drive inclusive climate action across the sector.

Emissions Accounting and Reduction - 9/15

Basic - 9/9

Establish a baseline year to represent peak emissions and serve as a reference point for GHG reduction progress;

Set context-appropriate decarbonization targets and timelines. Targets should represent a progression beyond the Signatory’s baseline year and reflect its highest possible ambition and shortest possible time frame;

Determine context-appropriate methods of measuring GHG emissions;

Account for emissions from international education activities inclusive of operations; international student academic-related travel; global education participant academic-related travel; faculty academic, research, and business travel; researchers’ project-related travel; staff and administrators’ travel, and student personal travel during their academic program.

Establish immediate, mid-term, and long-range limits on verified carbon credit projects. Verified carbon credit project limits should be defined as percentages of baseline year emissions;

Commit to not using carbon credit projects as a substitute for decarbonization measures nor as justification for delaying emissions reductions;

Follow up on carbon credit projects to ensure they deliver;

Regularly revise carbon credit strategy as best practices evolve; and

Signatories that offer conferences and other events should account for GHG emissions from in-person attendees.

Travel - 4/12

Basic - 4/4

Replace physical meetings with online ones when possible and logical;

Adjust, or introduce, climate conscious travel policies to incentivise lower carbon means of travel and reduce emissions-intensive business and academic travel;

When travelling by air is deemed necessary for international education business purposes, fly economy class or the least carbon-intensive mode;

Signatories that deliver conferences and other events should offer virtual participation options.

Facilities, Operations, and Procurement - 7/16

Basic - 7/7

Commit to collaborating with organizational sustainability unit(s);

Resource international education climate action commitments through budget and staffing allocation;

Ensure climate action is a responsibility in at least one person’s position description;

Collaborate globally on data collection and surveys relating to climate action in international education;

Implement flexible and equitable work from home options;

Replace printing and shipping marketing materials with digital marketing technologies; and

Encourage international education stakeholders to become Signatories to the CANIE Accord.

Climate Education - 5/13

Basic - 5/5

Insert climate literacy training modules into programming for all globally mobile students;

Support the development and dissemination of climate literacy professional training programs;

Encourage and support personnel to take advantage of climate action events resources provided by CANIE and other organizations; and

Make proprietary resources (e.g. articles, white papers and conference sessions) freely available to all in the sector when they pertain to climate action in international education; and

Include climate action as a theme at conferences and events.

Interregional Academy of Personnel Management

General Information

CANIE Accord Commitments

Better - 3/3

Basic - 9/9

Basic - 4/4

Basic - 7/7

Basic - 5/5

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