FOCUS-Conferences comeback faces climate challenge
From airmiles and gas-guzzling shuttle buses to lake-sized quantities of plastic bottled water and piles of brochures, events can exact a heavy toll. Pre-COVID, the annual carbon footprint for the global event and convention industry was on par with the yearly greenhouse gas emissions of the United States, according to a study by Cornell University and researchers from the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment published in Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-27251-2 last month.
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