As part of our joint effort Greening ENLIGHT Universities, we are launching The Carbon Countdown: How do we Budget for a Sustainable Future?
This and many other aspects will be discussed at the first ENLIGHT Webinar on "Carbon Budgeting and Pricing Systems", taking place on 17 September 2025, 14:00 - 16:00 CET. Three experts will share their insights:
- How to successfully reduce emissions from academic air travel: Framework requirements, challenges and success factors - The Konstanz Journey!
Hilmar Hofmann, Head of the Sustainability Staff Unit, University of Konstanz (Germany) - Carbon budgeting at the University of Borås
Birgitta Losman, Sustainability Strategist, University of Borås (Sweden) - CO2 compensation for air travel from business trips
Prof. Edwin Woerdman, Prof. of Markets and Regulation, University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
This webinar is aimed at ENLIGHT staff and students, especially decision-makers, board members and colleagues working in finance, strategy and development, sustainability, environmental protection, and faculties.
Registration is required by 14 September 2025 via the University of Göttingen platform. Registered participants will receive the webinar link in advance of the event.
About the speakers:
Dr. Hilmar Hofmann, Head of the Staff Unit Sustainability, University of Konstanz (Germany)
Currently, Hofmann is Head of the Staff Unit Sustainability at the University of Konstanz. The unit’s mission is to support and coordinate sustainable development across all fields of action. It promotes the active involvement of all status groups and administrative areas of the university, helping to drive and strengthen the transformation towards a more sustainable University of Konstanz.
They do this by:
• Promoting dialogue on sustainability among employees and students to develop and establish a common understanding
• Setting up a framework of sustainability policies through a participatory process
• Actively promoting and implementing structures and measures for sustainable development
• Taking an active role in regional, national, and international sustainability networks
With a background as an environmental engineer and scientist in aquatic physics, he is committed to fostering a more sustainable future for organisations, people and the planet. He sees his role as being a sounding board for all members of the university who wish to shape and implement sustainability.
More information: https://www.uni-konstanz.de/en/staff-unit-sustainability/ and https://www.uni-konstanz.de/en/university/sustainable-development/
Prof. Dr. Edwin Woerdman, Professor of Markets and Regulation, University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
Edwin Woerdman (b. 1970) has been Professor of Markets and Regulation at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, since 2018. He has also served as Managing Board Member of the Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability (GCELS) since 2007.
He obtained his PhD on climate law and economics in Groningen in 2002, after graduating cum laude in political science at Radboud University Nijmegen in 1996.
His research specialised in energy and carbon market regulation, concentrating on emissions trading and other tradable rights. Woerdman has published more than one hundred articles, chapters and monographs, including Essential EU Climate Law (Edward Elgar) and Politiek en Politicologie (Noordhoff). Two of his papers on emissions trading were ranked among the Top 20 ‘Most Downloaded Articles’ in the Review of Law and Economics.
More information: https://www.rug.nl/staff/e.woerdman/cv
Birgitta Losman, Sustainability Strategist, University of Borås (Sweden)
More information: https://www.hb.se/en/shortcuts/contact/employee/BILO/
