[FOSS4G-Oceania] [talk-au] GHG mitigation and FOSS4G SotM Oceania

[Sebastian S.]

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.steer at 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
>
>
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