My Earth in 180 minutes

 

Up-to-date Activity Summary

12 continental biogeochemistry tables / 5 peatland tables

More than 80 people participated.

 

2023 – First meetings with the coordination team and interested FairCarboN members.

The workshop aimed to introduce, in an engaging way through role-playing activities, discussions on the carbon footprint of research projects. Participants explored scenarios related to travel (field campaigns, conferences, etc.), procurement and operational expenses, as well as everyday practices within research teams. Together, they identified practical measures to reduce the projects' carbon footprint by 50% by 2030.

The group proposed a range of carbon emission reduction measures while emphasizing the importance of structural actions by research institutions to support the transformations advocated by the scientific community.

Around twenty participants, representing the different projects, were also trained to facilitate the workshop themselves, enabling them to train the research teams involved in the programme.

The session also marked the first use of the new Continental Biogeochemistry workshop table, designed by the FairCarboN facilitation team.

Actu Ma Terre / corps texte

 

2024 – First serious game workshops for PEPR researchers.

During the annual meeting, around thirty researchers took part in the workshop, facilitated by members of the programme's facilitation team. The session took place in a friendly and engaging atmosphere, giving participants the opportunity to explore the main levers available to reduce the carbon footprint of a research laboratory.

All teams successfully achieved the target, notably by adopting different strategies: some opted for an evenly distributed effort across all activities, while others prioritized more targeted actions.

 

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2025 – Ongoing delivery of serious game workshops for researchers involved in the PEPR.

During the annual meeting in Le Croisic, around thirty researchers took part in the workshop, which was facilitated by several scientists who had participated in the previous year's session.

Participants were recruited through a questionnaire sent to all attendees. Most of the volunteers had never heard of the Ma Terre workshop before and joined out of curiosity to discover the initiative. The workshop brought together teams composed of both early-career researchers and more experienced scientists. The distribution of roles—sometimes reversing the usual hierarchy—greatly enriched the discussions.

The workshop's educational approach was particularly well received. Several participants were so enthusiastic that they went on to organize a Ma Terre workshop in their own laboratories in the weeks that followed.

 

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