The presentation entitled: "Monitoring and minimising the travel footprint associated with the development of the Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit" by Didier Barret (IRAP, Toulouse, FR), X-IFU Principal Investigator, was presented on July 2020 during the EAS 2020 at "Astronomy for Future: Development, global citizenship & climate action" session. This is open access for the community here.