[Talk-nz] [FOSS4G-Oceania] GHG mitigation and FOSS4G SotM Oceania

[Alex Leith]

Hey Adam

I think this is a really good initiative, and I support it in principle.

I think we could do the research and preparations ahead of the event, and
perhaps it becomes part of the plan to push a portion of the surplus into
offsetting (part of) the event. I don’t think we should commit to it unless
we meet a certain surplus, as we are a new org and need to ensure we’re
sustainable (financially!) first.

Cheers,

On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 at 7:13 pm, 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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