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The Carbon Footprint of Conference Papers

The action required to stem the environmental and social implications of climate change depends crucially on how humankind shapes technology, economy, lifestyle and policy. With transport CO(2) emissions accounting for about a quarter of the total, we examine the contribution of CO(2) output by scie...

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Autores principales: Spinellis, Diomidis, Louridas, Panos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3694072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23840496
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0066508
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description The action required to stem the environmental and social implications of climate change depends crucially on how humankind shapes technology, economy, lifestyle and policy. With transport CO(2) emissions accounting for about a quarter of the total, we examine the contribution of CO(2) output by scientific travel. Thankfully for the reputation of the scientific community, CO(2) emissions associated with the trips required to present a paper at a scientific conference account for just 0.003% of the yearly total. However, with CO(2) emissions for a single conference trip amounting to 7% of an average individual’s total CO(2) emissions, scientists should lead by example by demonstrating leadership in addressing the issue.
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spelling pubmed-36940722013-07-09 The Carbon Footprint of Conference Papers Spinellis, Diomidis Louridas, Panos PLoS One Research Article The action required to stem the environmental and social implications of climate change depends crucially on how humankind shapes technology, economy, lifestyle and policy. With transport CO(2) emissions accounting for about a quarter of the total, we examine the contribution of CO(2) output by scientific travel. Thankfully for the reputation of the scientific community, CO(2) emissions associated with the trips required to present a paper at a scientific conference account for just 0.003% of the yearly total. However, with CO(2) emissions for a single conference trip amounting to 7% of an average individual’s total CO(2) emissions, scientists should lead by example by demonstrating leadership in addressing the issue. Public Library of Science 2013-06-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3694072/ /pubmed/23840496 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0066508 Text en © 2013 Spinellis, Louridas http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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