Plan, visualize, realize : A tool for budgeting and following-up a carbon budget for heads of division at a fly-intensive organization

Sammanfattning

To prevent climate change, the world needs to reduce carbon emissions globally. This also applies to academia, where a large portion of a research-intensive organization’s total emissions comes from flying. At KTH, a research-intensive organization, an ambitious university-wide goal to reduce emissions from academic flying has been established. The mid-level structure in the organization, a division, functions as a boundary between the individual employee and the larger organization, and has been identified as a promising target to address the organizational goals. In this study a tool for heads of divisions to budget and follow-up a speculative carbon budget on their division is explored through a design process. It was found that a tool for heads of division to manage carbon emissions at their division needs to involve the employees in the process, be effortless in terms of prioritization of trips and provide a good overview for decision making. The most prominent finding, and the requirement for such a tool to be implemented, is clearer directives and communication from the top-level of the organization.