Trend towards virtual and hybrid conferences may be an effective climate change mitigation strategy

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dc.contributor.authorTao, Yanqiucs
dc.contributor.authorSteckel, Debbiecs
dc.contributor.authorKlemeš, Jiřícs
dc.contributor.authorYou, Fengqics
dc.coverage.issue1cs
dc.coverage.volume12cs
dc.date.issued2021-12-16cs
dc.description.abstractSince 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has urged event holders to shift conferences online. Virtual and hybrid conferences are greener alternatives to in-person conferences, yet their environmental sustainability has not been fully assessed. Considering food, accommodation, preparation, execution, information and communication technology, and transportation, here we report comparative life cycle assessment results of in-person, virtual, and hybrid conferences and consider carbon footprint trade-offs between in-person participation and hybrid conferences. We find that transitioning from in-person to virtual conferencing can substantially reduce the carbon footprint by 94% and energy use by 90%. For the sake of maintaining more than 50% of in-person participation, carefully selected hubs for hybrid conferences have the potential to slash carbon footprint and energy use by two-thirds. Furthermore, switching the dietary type of future conferences to plant-based diets and improving energy efficiencies of the information and communication technology sector can further reduce the carbon footprint of virtual conferences. Moving conferences from in-person to virtual and hybrid modes may have emissions reductions benefits. Here the authors find that the switch to virtual and hybrid conferencing reduces the carbon footprint by 94% when it comes to the switch to virtual conferencing, and 67% for hybrid conferences with carefully selected hubs.en
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dc.identifier.citationNATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 2021, vol. 12, issue 1, p. 7324-7324.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/s41467-021-27251-2cs
dc.identifier.issn2041-1723cs
dc.identifier.orcid0000-0002-7450-7029cs
dc.identifier.other175668cs
dc.identifier.researcheridB-7291-2009cs
dc.identifier.scopus56903012000cs
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11012/204007
dc.language.isoencs
dc.publisherNature Publishing Groupcs
dc.relation.ispartofNATURE COMMUNICATIONScs
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dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalcs
dc.rights.accessopenAccesscs
dc.rights.sherpahttp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/2041-1723/cs
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/cs
dc.subjectcarbon footprinten
dc.subjectclimate changeen
dc.subjectCOVID-19en
dc.subjectenergy useen
dc.subjectinformationen
dc.titleTrend towards virtual and hybrid conferences may be an effective climate change mitigation strategyen
dc.type.driverarticleen
dc.type.statusPeer-revieweden
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen
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sync.item.insts2025.02.03 15:47:19en
sync.item.modts2025.01.17 19:34:43en
thesis.grantorVysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta strojního inženýrství. Laboratoř integrace procesůcs
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