The second edition of the Politecnico di Milano's CO2 Emissions Mitigation Plan (PdM, 2024) - approved in July 2024 by the academic bodies - provides for the assumption of formal commitments to reduce climate-changing emissions compared to the reference year 2015:
- 25% by 2025
- 55% by 2030
- Net-Zero CO2 by 2040
The document is an update of the previous PdM, 2019, approved by the academic bodies in February 2019, which implements the emission reduction commitments set out in the 2024 Strategic Sustainability Plan. It confirms the 25% reduction target in 2025, formalized with the previous 2019 PdM, while revising the reduction target to 2030, bringing it from 35% to 50%; it also introduces a new ambitious goal: "Net-Zero CO2" to be achieved by 2040.
Considering the data from the university's CO2 emission inventories, available until 2022, the Mitigation Plan describes the actions that the university has implemented and plans (or suggests) to implement, to reduce its CO2 emissions and play an active role in the fight against climate change.
The purpose of the document is to give a scientific basis to the university's sustainable development policies and to support academic bodies in making and formalizing commitments to reduce their emissions in the short and long term.
The Plan - for the elaboration of which it was necessary to collaborate between several university structures - represents a concrete contribution by the Politecnico - which has been engaged for years in numerous institutional, teaching, research and technological development activities - to the global effort to mitigate climate change, as well as another step towards the creation of a "Sustainable Campus".