Working toward a Low-Carbon AAG Meeting: What the GHG Metrics Tell Us

Walenta, Jayme; Castro, A.M.G.

doi:10.1080/00330124.2021.1915825

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“…To determine the potential impact of a hub-meeting model on the AOFAS annual meeting carbon footprint, we calculated emissions assuming hubs in Chicago, Santiago, London, and Tokyo and estimated there would be a 54% reduction in round-trip air travel emissions, or an estimated 71% reduction if three additional United States locations were included. Similarly, a hub-meeting model with four United States and three international hubs was estimated to reduce the emissions of the 2019 American Association of Geographers meeting by approximately 73% compared with a single meeting in Washington, DC, USA [49]. However, prior studies have noted the hub model’s potential to perpetuate inequalities by further centering on United States institutions and marginalizing certain geographic areas and their academics [50].…”

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American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society Annual Meeting All-in-person Attendance Results in Immense Carbon Expenditure

Parker,

Bluman,

Pruneski

et al. 2023

Clin Orthop Relat Res

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Background Professional society conferences are integral to the medical profession. However, airline travel is a major contributor to greenhouse gas production, and the environmental impact of in-person attendance at an orthopaedic conference has yet to be described. With growing concern about the climate crisis, we sought to quantify the carbon footprint of in-person attendance to help potential attendees more consciously consider in-person attendance, inform strategies to minimize greenhouse gas emissions during travel to annual meetings, and increase awareness about and momentum for efforts in orthopaedic surgery to reduce the carbon footprint of society conferences. Questions/purposes (1) What was the magnitude of greenhouse gas production resulting from all-in-person 2019 American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) annual meeting attendance in Chicago, IL, USA? (2) What was the magnitude of greenhouse gas production resulting from the all-virtual 2020 AOFAS annual meeting, and how does it compare with the 2019 AOFAS annual meeting carbon footprint? (3) To what extent could an alternative in-person meeting model with four or seven hubs decrease greenhouse gas production resulting from round-trip air travel compared with the 2019 AOFAS annual meeting? Methods A list of the postal codes and countries of all 1271 registered participants attending the four-day 2019 AOFAS annual meeting in Chicago, IL, USA, was obtained from AOFAS headquarters. The 2019 conference was chosen because it was the last pre-COVID meeting and thus attendance was more likely to resemble that at prepandemic in-person conferences than more recent meetings because of pandemic travel restrictions. We estimated carbon dioxide–equivalent (CO2e) production from round-trip air travel using a publicly available internet-based calculator (Myclimate: https://co2.myclimate.org/en/flight_calculators/new). Emissions produced by the conference venue, car travel, and hotel stays were estimated using published Environmental Protection Agency emission factors. To estimate emissions produced by the all-virtual 2020 AOFAS annual meeting (assuming an equal number of attendees as in 2019), we used the framework published by Faber and summed estimated network data transfer emissions, personal computer and monitor emissions, and server-related emissions. Using the 2019 registrant list, we modeled four-hub and seven-hub in-person meeting alternatives to determine potential decreased round-trip air travel greenhouse gas production. Meeting hub locations were selected by visualizing the geographic distribution of the 2019 registrants and selecting reasonable meeting locations that would minimize air travel for the greatest number of attendees. Registrants were assigned to the nearest hub location. Myclimate was again used to estimate CO2e production for round-trip air travel for the hub meeting models. Results The total estimated emissions of the all-in-person 2019 AOFAS annual meeting (when accounting for travel, conference space, and hotel stays) was 1565 tons CO2e (median 0.61 tons per attendee, range 0.02 to 7.7 tons). The total estimated emissions of the all-virtual 2020 meeting (when accounting for network data transfer emissions, personal computer and monitor emissions, and server-related emissions) was 34 tons CO2e (median 0.03 tons per attendee). This corresponds to a 97.8% decrease in CO2e emissions compared with the in-person conference. The model of a four-hub in-person meeting alternative with meetings in Chicago; Santiago, London, and Tokyo predicted an estimated 54% decrease in CO2e emissions from round-trip air travel. The seven-hub meeting model with meetings in Chicago, Washington, DC; Dallas; Los Angeles; Santiago; London; and Tokyo was predicted to diminish the CO2e emissions of round-trip air travel by an estimated 71%. Conclusion The 2019 AOFAS annual meeting had an enormous carbon footprint and resulted in many individuals exceeding their annual allotted carbon budget (2.5 tons) according to the Paris Agreement. Hosting the meeting virtually greatly reduced the annual meeting carbon footprint, and our hub-based meeting models identified potential in-person alternatives for reducing the carbon footprint of conference attendance. Clinical Relevance Professional societies must consider our responsibility to decarbonizing the healthcare sector by considering innovative approaches—perhaps such as our multihub proposals—to decarbonize carbon-intensive annual meetings without stalling academic progress.

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American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society Annual Meeting All-in-person Attendance Results in Immense Carbon Expenditure

Parker,

Bluman,

Pruneski

et al. 2023

Clin Orthop Relat Res

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“…Apesar da importância do tema, buscas no Scopus com as palavras-chave TITLE-ABS-KEY ("business tourism" OR "conference travel") AND TITLE-ABS-KEY ("carbon footprint") e no Web of Science, com as palavras-chave TS= ("business tourism" OR "conference travel") AND TS=("carbon footprint") retornaram apenas 12 artigos, eliminando os duplicados (Kremser, et al, 2024;Köhler, et al, 2022;Bajpai, et al, 2022;Walenta & Castro, 2022;Seidel, et al, 2021;van Ewijk & Hoekman, 2021;Raby & Madden, 2021;Duane, et al, 2021;Rissman & Jacobs, 2020;Kitamura, et al, 2020;Bousema, et al, 2020;Cadarso, et al, 2015). No Scielo também não foram encontrados resultados com as mesmas palavras-chave em língua inglesa e portuguesa.…”

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Análise das emissões de alternativas de transporte turístico de um participante do 20º Rio de Transportes

Pinheiro Tóffano Pereira,

Galo

2024

Rev. Adm. Soc. Inov.

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Uma parcela significativa da pegada de carbono global tem o transporte turístico como origem. Porém, ainda são necessários mais estudos sobre o turismo de negócios. Portanto, este artigo tem como objetivo apresentar uma análise comparativa das emissões de carbono equivalentes oriundas das escolhas modais de um participante se deslocando de Goiânia ao Rio de Janeiro, para participar do 20o Rio de Transportes. Para isso, aplicou-se um método avançado de Avaliação do Ciclo de Vida (ACV) baseado na abordagem híbrida ACV- DESNZ, capaz de avaliar as emissões de gases diretas e indiretas. Cinco cenários foram elaborados levando em consideração as alternativas de transportes e os combustíveis mais comuns para esta viagem. Os resultados mostram que viajar de ônibus emite apenas 20% das emissões de Gases do Efeito Estufa (GEE) de viagens de avião com escalas. A ACV ainda ratificou que as emissões de GEE ‘indiretas’ deste turismo de negócios são significativas, enfatizando a importância de sua incorporação em futuras avaliações de impacto. Além disso, reflete-se sobre as emissões daqueles que assistiram ao evento de forma virtual.

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“…Reducing the financial costs and environmental/ecological impact of these conferences (i.e. heavy carbon footprints, carbon emissions) has been discussed in the literature, mainly in recent years [1][2][3]. Originally, scientific conferences were primarily organised by learned societies or universities.…”

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Questionable conferences and presenters from top-ranked universities

Kulczycki

Hołowiecki

Taşk℩n

et al. 2022

Journal of Information Science

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This article aims to investigate the structures of 935 conferences organised by OMICS and 296 conferences organised by WASET from 2015 through 2017. These conferences are characterised in existing literature as so-called predatory or questionable conferences that provide low-quality academic meetings. We analyse 40,224 presenters, focusing on top-ranked institutions according to three global university ranking systems (Academic Ranking of World Universities, Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and QS World University Rankings). Our analysis shows that participants in OMICS events were primarily researchers from the United States, India, the United Kingdom, and China. WASET attracted more researchers from Turkey, India, and South Korea. We found that 11.0% of OMICS and 5.7% of WASET presenters were affiliated with institutions ranked in the top 100 in one of the three aforementioned rankings. We also found that both companies mostly organised conferences in cities that were top tourist destinations.

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Working toward a Low-Carbon AAG Meeting: What the GHG Metrics Tell Us

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American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society Annual Meeting All-in-person Attendance Results in Immense Carbon Expenditure

American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society Annual Meeting All-in-person Attendance Results in Immense Carbon Expenditure

Análise das emissões de alternativas de transporte turístico de um participante do 20º Rio de Transportes

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