List of low-carbon conferences

Air travel to conferences is an important source of emissions by academics. In order to reduce these emissions, a number of conference organizers have adopted various strategies.

Conference with several virtually connected regional hubs, rather than a single location.

• Double conference "Higher algebra and mathematical physics" (HAMP 2018), with two locations in Bonn and Waterloo.
• ICMPC15-ESCOM10, a 2018 conference on music psychology, with four locations in Graz, La Plata, Sydney and Montreal.
• Ecology & Religion in Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, a 2019 conference at 5 digitally connected sites in the USA and in the UK. The conference website points to a number of assessments of its approach to flightless conferencing, including this blog post.^[1]

• The 2019 meeting of the European Biological Rhythms Society (EBRS), to which four fifth of the attendees connected via virtual hubs, and where psychologists studied the effectiveness of networking.^[2]
• The 2020 meeting of Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, whose virtual part was increased due to the coronavirus pandemic.^[3]

• The world in 2050: creating/imagining just climate futures (2016) and A clockwork green: ecomedia and the anthropocene (2018), two virtual conferences which came with a white paper on their organization.^[4]
• A 2017 virtual conference on agile practices in government used not only Zoom videoconferencing, but also Slack and Twitter.^[5]
• Couchcon, a 2018 marketing conference organized by Wistia.^[6]
• Where next for global taxing rights?, a 2019 conference.^[7]
• Photonics Online Meetup 2020, an all-online one-day conference, including a virtual poster session on Twitter.

The 2019-2020 coronavirus pandemic forced many conferences to adopt a virtual format. It is speculated that virtual meetings may remain common after the pandemic due to their lower cost, lower environmental impact, and higher convenience for many participants.^[8]

Some conferences that switched to a virtual format due to the pandemic:

• ICLR2020, the Eighth International Conference on Learning Representations.
• The April 2020 meeting of the American Physical Society. "The society hired a company to provide the necessary online infrastructure and technological support."^[9][4]
• Neutrino 2020, an online conference with a virtual reality platform.

• Eco-friendly conferences at Sustainatility in Science wiki.
• Comparison of web conferencing software, including the free software BigBlueButton, Jitsi Meet and OpenMeetings.