Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A society moves its annual meeting from a single global venue to three regional hubs joined by video, reducing travel emissions by 60 percent.
- Is an instance
A learned society publishes the per-delegate kg CO2e of its 2024 meeting in the conference report.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
A purely virtual webinar has near-zero travel emissions and is out of scope.
- Not an instance
Local seminars within walking distance contribute negligibly.
Editorial commentary
Conference travel is often the largest single discretionary contributor to a researcher's annual footprint. Large international conferences with several thousand delegates can produce tens of thousands of tonnes CO2e per event. Increasingly, conferences publish event-level carbon footprints in their final reports, and some learned societies require carbon mitigation in venue selection. Mitigation includes regional satellite hubs, biennial rather than annual frequencies, and structured hybrid formats with quality remote participation.
References
- Klower et al. Nature 2020 on conference flying; Royal Society Net Zero Climate report 2021.
Also known as
Conference flying · Meeting travel emissions
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