Making Conferences Greener: A project of the ESF Conferences Unit |
We are proud to inform you that the ESF Research Conferences Forest has become bigger!
3777 exemplars of Moringa trees will join the 5833 ones that we planted last year.
They will be planted in Dosso (Niger) to face the desertification of the area and to offset 1020 tons of CO2 during their life span.
More information will be posted soon!
A 140m deep water well was drilled during the last months and its electric pump at a depth of 80m to pump the water up to the surface is run by soler panels. Click here to read the whole report and look at the picture.
The two hectares of moringa trees planted last year gave a good weekly leaf harvests over the summer and the products were sold right away at the market in the nearby city of Dosso. Do you wonder what does the moringa leaf taste like? Click here to discover it!
The idea to turn our conferences ‘green’ started in 2009 and involves various aspects of the conference organisation. In order to conform to UNEP recommendations, amongst others, we are working on making our conferences more sustainable and environmentally friendly. This will be an ongoing project that will affect our participants, our material, our venues and our office. This page aims to keep our attendees informed about the status of the project and further green activities.
We would also like to encourage participants to use this page to write tips and recommendations that will help to make our green project successful.
- Research Conferences Forest and Green Fee
- Green Travel
- Green Venues
- Green Material
- Green Office
ESF provides the scientific, administrative and technical secretariat for COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).