The carbon footprint of large astronomy meetings
arXiv:2009.11344 · doi:10.1038/s41550-020-1207-z
Abstract
The annual meeting of the European Astronomical Society took place in Lyon, France, in 2019, but in 2020 it was held online only due the COVID-19 pandemic. The carbon footprint of the virtual meeting was roughly 3,000 times smaller than the face-to-face one, providing encouragement for more ecologically minded conferencing.
Originated in a Twitter discussion (https://twitter.com/sarahkendrew/status/1144186571538739202) at EWASS 2019; followed up at the EAS 2020 conference sustainability session by https://astronomersforplanet.earth - published in Nature Astronomy, September 2020
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