Carbon footprint of the 2021 and 2022 AAPOS annual meetings
The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a virtual annual meeting of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS) in 2021, thus eliminating carbon emissions from travel to and from the planned meeting venue in Boston, Massachusetts. We found that the reduced carbon footprint...
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American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9513328/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36096367 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaapos.2022.06.002 |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a virtual annual meeting of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS) in 2021, thus eliminating carbon emissions from travel to and from the planned meeting venue in Boston, Massachusetts. We found that the reduced carbon footprint of the virtual meeting saved 1,282 metric tonnes of CO(2) emissions compared with estimated CO(2) emissions for travel if the meeting had taken place in person, or 880 metric tonnes relative to the projected emissions associated with the in-person 2022 annual meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona. An entirely virtual or hybrid AAPOS meeting would reduce its environmental footprint and increase the opportunity for national and international participation and education. |
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spelling | pubmed-95133282022-09-27 Carbon footprint of the 2021 and 2022 AAPOS annual meetings West, Constance E. Hunter, David G. J AAPOS Short Report The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a virtual annual meeting of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS) in 2021, thus eliminating carbon emissions from travel to and from the planned meeting venue in Boston, Massachusetts. We found that the reduced carbon footprint of the virtual meeting saved 1,282 metric tonnes of CO(2) emissions compared with estimated CO(2) emissions for travel if the meeting had taken place in person, or 880 metric tonnes relative to the projected emissions associated with the in-person 2022 annual meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona. An entirely virtual or hybrid AAPOS meeting would reduce its environmental footprint and increase the opportunity for national and international participation and education. American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022-10 2022-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9513328/ /pubmed/36096367 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaapos.2022.06.002 Text en © 2022 American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Short Report West, Constance E. Hunter, David G. Carbon footprint of the 2021 and 2022 AAPOS annual meetings |
title | Carbon footprint of the 2021 and 2022 AAPOS annual meetings |
title_full | Carbon footprint of the 2021 and 2022 AAPOS annual meetings |
title_fullStr | Carbon footprint of the 2021 and 2022 AAPOS annual meetings |
title_full_unstemmed | Carbon footprint of the 2021 and 2022 AAPOS annual meetings |
title_short | Carbon footprint of the 2021 and 2022 AAPOS annual meetings |
title_sort | carbon footprint of the 2021 and 2022 aapos annual meetings |
topic | Short Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9513328/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36096367 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaapos.2022.06.002 |
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