I would suggest taking a different approach. Paying for carbon offsets does not further
Wikimedia’s goals. It is, at best, a shortcut to brownie points as measured by other
organisations. Requiring volunteers to pay extra for carbon offsets is doubly worse as
they can’t then spend that money on their other Wikimedia activities.
Instead, perhaps we could invest in projects that will improve our coverage of climate
change? Imagine the impact that improving our freely licensed information about climate
change could make. Good/featured articles about the organisations that have been named
here already? More referenced information in the articles on this topic? More images to
illustrate those articles? If that doesn’t make a difference, then we have to answer a
rather more fundamental question about our impact on the world.
Thanks,
Mike
On 11 Oct 2019, at 22:27, Bence Damokos
<bdamokos(a)gmail.com> wrote:
In case it is interesting, for the tenders at my workplace that require
offsetting, we include this requirement:
"
Carbon offsetting will be achieved by means of projects of the following
type: CDM (Clean Development Mechanism), JI (Joint Implementation) or VER
(Voluntary Emissions Reduction), all certified as 'Gold Standard' by bodies
accredited by the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change)."
In practice,
https://offset.climateneutralnow.org/ is a place I've used
personally where one can easily find projects meeting the above criteria.
For more context, to save a bit of Google-ing:
CDM projects are those assessed and verified by the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in developing countries
which can sell certified emission reduction (CER) credits, each one
equivalent to one ton of CO2. These CERs can be traded and sold and are
currently used by industrialized countries to meet a part of their emission
reduction targets under the Kyoto Protocol(link is external)
<http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/mechanisms/clean_development_mechanism/items/2718.php>
.
Gold Standard projects are CDM or voluntary offset projects giving an
additional guarantee concerning sustainable development benefits. These are
projects awarded the 'Gold Standard'(link is external)
<http://www.goldstandard.org/> quality label by a Swiss-based non-profit
foundation, supported by a group of 50 NGOs.[1]
[1] From
https://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/funding/faqs-toolkit-and-glossary/frequently…
Best regards,
Bence
On Fri, 11 Oct 2019, 22:55 Fæ, <faewik(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Any general questions like catering for virtual
attendees can be
raised at the talk page for the 2020 LGBT+ conference.[1] The
conference is at the proposal stage with funding yet to be agreed with
the WMF. The proposers will be happy to receive feedback and respond
to questions.
If no previous conference within our wider Wikimedia movement has used
carbon offset projects to benefit its green footprint, that's an
interesting fact to confirm as this may well be a great opportunity to
try this out.
Links
1.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Conference/Kawayashu/Queering_W…
Thanks,
Fae
On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 at 20:47, Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
This has nothing to do with how green WMF operations might be. It has
to do with the greener choices /we/ as volunteers can make for /our/
conferences.
Since a fortnight ago you were haranguing* the WMF for using too much air
travel and lacking "any actual measurable commitment to picking up a
telephone, holding a video conference, or holding a VR conference
session",
it will be interesting to see what solutions you
can come up with for
this
conference you're organising. Did you
consider the options other than an
in-person conference that you recommended the WMF adopt, out of interest?
*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-09-30/…
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