Green JALT
The Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT)'s Environmental Committee was established in 2013 to raise awareness of environmental issues related to language education and to introduce sustainable practices to JALT conferences. We have been represented by an Environment liaison at several conferences since 2014.
Environment Liaison Responsibility
The Environment liaison should try to ensure a conference is as sustainable as possible. Areas include conference registration, carbon offsets, printed material, including badges and handbooks. If possible the environment liaison should either be based locally or have a local representative to ensure it is possible to obtain materials locally. In the long term, the Environmental committee aim to create truly sustainable conferences.FAQ
Useful Links
A more detailed overview including previous work
Green Meetings Checklist
The David Suzuki Foundation outlines ways in which to create a greener conference whilst Arizona State University have published a green conference checklist.
There are several other options available. This is a simply easy to understand versions Example
Green Products and logos
It is often difficult to know which products are really eco friendly. There are several organizations that offer certification. Here is a rough guide.
Green Products and logos
Conference Proposals
JALT National Environment Proposals 2016 (updated)
Publications
JALT's Environmental Committee
“We become the bad guys who have to tell you these uncomfortable things”
Climate emergency speeches
23rd July Paris How long do we have? IPCC report (page 108)
Keywords
Carbon dioxide budget, united science, a climate emergency
Carbon Footprints
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What is a carbon footprint ?
The amount of carbon attributable to a person,conference, organization, transport, event and others.
Carbon Carbon refers to all the gases that cause climate change. Carbon dioxide and Methane are probably the most well known.
Example Offsets/AIR
What is the carbon footprint of our National Conference? This is quite difficult to calculate accurately, but we have calculated a range of figures using data available. The amount range from 134 tonnes to 250 tonnes of carbon.
To put this into perspective, the target for every individual at the recent Climate Conference is Paris was 2 tonnes/ per year.
Each citizen of the EU or Japan at present have a footprint of about 9 tonnes whilst the figure for Bangladesh is 0.4
Greenhouse gases
What is a carbon offset?
World Bank including CO2 emissions Click on country
World Bank data Japan (includes CO2 emissions)
JALT Conference carbon footprint estimates.
We have estimated the PAN sig carbon footprint since 2014
What is a carbon offset ? A reductions emissions in greenhouse gases made in order to compensate for or to offset a emission made else where.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_offset
Contact details
If you would like to help, even in a small way please contact us.
greenjalt@gmail.com
Contact details
If you would like to help, even in a small way please contact us.
greenjalt@gmail.com
