KU Leuven

Signatory Date: Mar 27, 2025

Region: Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium, 3000

Address: Oude Markt 13, LEUVEN

commitments

Basic: 15/32

Better: 3/32

Best: 3/6

commitments

Basic: 15/32

Better: 3/32

Best: 3/6

General Information

Organization Type: Institution

Specific Department Signing: KU Leuven

Organization/Department URL: https://www.kuleuven.be/english/kuleuven/index.html

Link to Organizational Sustainability Plan: https://www.kuleuven.be/duurzaamheid/sustainability

CANIE Accord Commitments

Travel - 3/12

Basic - 3/4

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;

Climate Education - 1/13

Basic - 1/5

Include climate action as a theme at conferences and events.

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KU Leuven is a world-renowned research university where brilliant minds are free to pursue their relentless curiosity. More than 7,000 researchers carry out cutting-edge work in Leuven and campuses across Belgium, resulting in a world top-50 university ranking and top-100 world rankings for each of its 15 faculties. This is how KU Leuven has inspired the outstanding in its students since 1425, and how it will continue to break new ground for the next 600 years to come.

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KU Leuven

General Information

CANIE Accord Commitments

Basic - 2/7

Better - 1/3

Best - 2/4

Basic - 4/9

Best - 1/1

Basic - 3/4

Basic - 5/7

Better - 2/9

Basic - 1/5

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