Thursday, December 16, 2021

Shifting conferences online cuts carbon footprint 94%

 

 https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/938270

 

 News Release 16-Dec-2021
Peer-Reviewed Publication
Cornell University

 

The COVID-19 global pandemic – unexpectedly – has shown humanity a new way to reduce climate change: Scrap in-person meetings and conventions.

Moving a professional conference completely online reduces its carbon footprint by 94%, and shifting it to a hybrid model, with no more than half of conventioneers online, curtails the footprint to 67%, according to a new Cornell University-led study in Nature Communication.

The annual carbon footprint for the global event and convention industry is on par with the yearly greenhouse gas emissions of the entire U.S., according to the new paper.

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