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      The pandemic push: can COVID-19 reinvent conferences to models rooted in sustainability, equitability and inclusion?

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          The COVID-19 pandemic necessitates a change in conference formats for 2020. This shift offers a unique opportunity to address long-standing inequities in access and issues of sustainability associated with traditional conference formats, through testing online platforms. However, moving online is not a panacea for all of these concerns, particularly those arising from uneven distribution of access to the Internet and other technology. With conferences and events being forced to move online, this is a critical juncture to examine how online formats can be used to best effect and to reduce the inequities of in-person meetings. In this article, we highlight that a thoughtful and equitable move to online formats could vastly strengthen the global socio-ecological research community and foster cohesive and effective collaborations, with ecology and society being the ultimate beneficiaries.

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            The Energy and Carbon Footprint of the Global ICT and E&M Sectors 2010–2015

            This article presents estimations of the energy and carbon footprint of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Entertainment & Media (E&M) sectors globally for 2010–2015 including a forecast to 2020. It builds on three previous global studies (2007, 2011, and 2018) and a Swedish study (2015) by the same authors. The study is based on an extensive dataset which combines primary and secondary data for operational (use stage) energy consumption and life cycle greenhouse gas emissions (CO2e) for the included sub-sectors, including energy and carbon footprint data from about 100 of the major global manufacturers, operators, and ICT and E&M service providers. The data set also includes sales statistics and forecasts for equipment to estimate product volumes in addition to published LCA studies and primary manufacturing data to estimate the embodied carbon footprint of products. The result shows that the ICT and E&M sectors have turned their previously growing footprints into shrinking ones despite a continuous increase in subscriptions and data traffic. Furthermore, the results of this study are also indicating that these footprints are significantly smaller than previously forecasted.
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                Contributors
                holly.niner@plymouth.ac.uk
                shailij@stanford.edu
                jmeyer@kms.uni-kiel.de
                s.wassermann1@nuigalway.ie
                Journal
                Socio Ecol Pract Res
                Socio-Ecological Practice Research
                Springer Singapore (Singapore )
                2524-5279
                2524-5287
                25 August 2020
                25 August 2020
                : 1-4
                Affiliations
                [1 ]GRID grid.11201.33, ISNI 0000 0001 2219 0747, School of Biological and Marine Sciences, Floor 3, Marine Building, , University of Plymouth, ; Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA UK
                [2 ]GRID grid.168010.e, ISNI 0000000419368956, Hopkins Marine Station, Department of Biology, , Stanford University, ; 120 Oceanview Boulevard, Pacific Grove, CA 93950 USA
                [3 ]GRID grid.9764.c, ISNI 0000 0001 2153 9986, Centre for Ocean and Society, , Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, ; Neufeldtstraße 10, 24118 Kiel, Germany
                [4 ]GRID grid.6142.1, ISNI 0000 0004 0488 0789, Ryan Institute, School of Natural Sciences, , National University of Ireland, Galway, ; University Rd., Galway, H91 TK33 Ireland
                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9567-9225
                https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7481-7548
                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1606-6966
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4323-5227
                Article
                59
                10.1007/s42532-020-00059-y
                7446603
                35ace25b-b0e1-4acd-ac1e-909bfcb25e02
                © The Author(s) 2020

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                : 3 June 2020
                : 30 July 2020
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