Hi folks Following from an earlier discussion [1] on osgeo-oceania about offsetting emissions which are incurred by getting to FOSS4G SotM Oceania, there’s been a long chat in the Maptime Australia slack channel about creating a low-carbon conference.
This has also been raised as an issue for the global FOSS4G [2]. The upshot of the conversation is that we’re looking at ways to mitigate our impact on the planet using something other than throwing money at offsetters [3]. With that in mind, I’ve sent enquiries to Bush Heritage Australia [4] and the NZ Native Forest Regeneration Trust [5] about donating an amount to work toward landscape-scale forest and biodiversity restoration - since buying acres of maybe-never-planted monoculture is really not a solution (see [3]). The idea is that the conference uses some of its budget (amount TBA) to ‘offset’ the event. Since the event is in NZ, the main carbon source is air travel - so I’ll do some modelling work to estimate travel GHG emissions, based initially on 2018 attendees and refining as we go. If you have any useful tools to hand for that task to hand, I’d appreciate hearing about them (or better! collaboration!). John Bryant already suggested this one: https://www.icao.int/environmental-protection/CarbonOffset/Pages/default.aspx If you know any other ‘boots on ground’ organisations we should consider, also please let us know. Regards Adam [1] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/foss4g-oceania/2019-April/001348.html [2] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2019-June/005222.html (end of a discussion) [3] https://features.propublica.org/brazil-carbon-offsets/inconvenient-truth-carbon-credits-dont-work-deforestation-redd-acre-cambodia/#162201 [4] https://www.bushheritage.org.au [5] https://www.nfrt.org.nz -- Dr. Adam Steer http://spatialised.net https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Adam_Steer http://au.linkedin.com/in/adamsteer http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0046-7236 +61 427 091 712 :: @adamdsteer Suits are bad for business: http://www.spatialised.net/business-penguins/
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