Hi, while I won't be attending I wanted to say that this is a great initiative. Thanks for initiating it.
On 17 June 2019 7:13:31 pm AEST, adam steer <adam.d.st...@gmail.com> 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. > >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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