[talk-au] GHG mitigation and FOSS4G SotM Oceania

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 at 19:17, 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.
>

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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