The carbon footprint of large astronomy meetings
Abstract
The annual meeting of the European Astronomical Society took place in Lyon, France, in 2019, but in 2020 it was held online only due the COVID-19 pandemic. The carbon footprint of the virtual meeting was roughly 3,000 times smaller than the face-to-face one, providing encouragement for more ecologically minded conferencing.
- Publication:
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Nature Astronomy
- Pub Date:
- September 2020
- DOI:
- 10.1038/s41550-020-1207-z
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2009.11344
- Bibcode:
- 2020NatAs...4..823B
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics;
- Physics - Physics and Society
- E-Print:
- Originated in a Twitter discussion (https://twitter.com/sarahkendrew/status/1144186571538739202) at EWASS 2019