Green Your Travel

SUSTAINABLE CONFERENCES

Does IAIA practice what it preaches? Yes, and more so every year. IAIA takes the following steps (as practical and possible) to mitigate the impacts of our conferences:

• Limit printed materials; communicate via e-mail and web to the extent practical and possible
• Contract with venues that participate in green programs (e.g., hotels that provide a linen and towel reuse program)
• Use bulk servings and pitchers rather than individual bottles; use china and silverware rather than disposables
• Provide recycling bins for discarded materials
• Ask delegates to confirm their attendance at events and functions to reduce waste and leftovers
• Encourage delegates to purchase carbon-offset credits for their flights
• Encourage delegates to return name badge holders
• Prepare a sustainable event report

IAIA continues to strongly support the need to reduce our carbon footprint around our conferences. To this end, US$5 from every conference registration will be donated to Carbone boréal to help offset the carbon footprint of this conference. Carbone boréal (http://carboneboreal.uqac.ca/home/), in partnership with Groupe DDM (www.groupe-ddm.com/fr/), is both a greenhouse gas offset program, through tree planting, and a research project led by researchers at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. The project aims to create experimental plantations, in collaboration with Québec’s Ministry of Forests, on lands where new forests can be established, while respecting natural ecosystems and their biodiversity.

Travel Green

IAIA encourages conference delegates to travel green! Here are some suggestions to help you get started:

• Sustainable Travel International
• ClimateCare
• Carbonfund
• atmosfair
• Myclimate

Inclusion of programs or organizations on this list does not represent an endorsement by IAIA.