On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 at 19:17, adam steer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > G'day Adam By sheer coincidence, I just got this through from a caravan parts supplier! https://www.caravansplus.com.au/guides/carbon-neutral-shipping-a-111.html?c=115431 Which linked to: https://cncf.com.au/our-work/current-projects/ & https://cncf.com.au/carbon-calculator/#air-travel If the figures don't come through, it showed "average" cabin class, for a medium haul return flight eg Sydney - Perth or 6554k return (which would probably cover most of Oceania to NZ?) = 1.17t of CO2! So, there's some figures & info for you to work with. Thanks Graeme
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