Conveners
Input and Discussion: Best-practise examples
- Shankha Banerjee (Moderator) (CERN)
- Melissa Quinnan (Chair) (Univ. of California San Diego (US))
Agriculture, food production and distribution are major contributors to global greenhouse gas emissions and can be hugely detrimental to our environment in terms of land use, biodiversity and eutrophication. The food system in so-called developed nations is currently unsustainable and needs dramatic changes in order to prevent global warming to less than 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Given the...
Courtesy of the pandemic, online conferences took over massively. The success of many of these events has made many members of our community think that organizing conferences online or in multiple regional hubs in parallel, could be our contribution to the carbon footprint of conference travel. Being this probably positive, it would also have a negative side. It will contribute to further...
We present the results of the Snowmass Implementation Task Force (ITF) analysis of 15 future collider concepts. We consider both the environmental cost of construction (CO2 footprint per meter of tunnel) and the carbon footprint associated with collider power consumption. We discuss strategies to mitigate the power consumption of future high-energy colliders, such as energy recovery. We also...
The energy consumption of an ${\rm e^+e^-}$ Higgs factory in operation will be everything but negligible. Future Higgs boson studies may therefore have a significant environmental impact. We propose ways to estimate the environmental footprint during the operation of all the Higgs factory projects that can credibly operate immediately after the end of LHC, namely the projects for three linear...
[ParticleBites.com][1] is a blog-based journal club written by graduate students targeted to undergraduates. Posts are accessible summaries of current research papers. While the public-facing blog is valuable for disseminating research, the group is also a science communication community within high-energy physics. Science communication can be powerful tools for supporting a sense of...
This talk will present the current state of the document 'Striving towards Environmental Sustainability in HECAP'. This work in progress is a grassroots effort emerging from the first workshop on Sustainability in HEP, with the aim of reflecting on the role that our community can play in limiting environmental impacts. We envision it as a prelude to a more widespread engagement of the HECAP...
