Thank you for attending EcoDesign 2019!

We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to each of you who participated in EcoDesign 2019. It was a highly successful and productive event!
In EcoDesign 2019, we had about 200 presentations and 300 participants in total. We believe that EcoDesign 2019 provided all the participants with an excellent opportunity to discuss topics on EcoDesign, sustainability, circular economy, and all relevant important topics. Also, we hope you have taken the opportunity to make new friends, renew old acquaintances and extend your networks for your continued success.
We express sincere appreciation to all the participants, presenters, keynote speakers, committee members, cooperators, supporters, sponsors, and all others who made this great event possible.

Next year, in our Going Green network, Electronics Goes Green 2020+ takes place in Berlin, Germany. In 2021, EcoDesign 2021 will take place in Nara, Japan. We look forward to see you all at the occasions. Wish you a pleasant and successful time!

Mitsutaka Matsumoto, EcoDesign 2019 Executive Committee Chair
Yusuke Kishita, EcoDesign 2019 Executive Committee Program Chair
Masato Inoue, EcoDesign 2019 Executive Committee Co-Chair
Shinichi Fukushige, EcoDesign 2019 Executive Committee Co-Chair

E-book Proceedings

The E-book Proceedings were published by Springer in November 2020. The title of the E-book is "EcoDesign and Sustainability" (Vol.I and Vol.II). Of the submitted papers, 79 papers were accepted for publication as results of peer reviews. We thank all the authors who submitted the papers. Also we thank all the reviewers. Most of the symposium executive committee members kindly cooperated for the peer review.

By proceedings editors: Y.Kishita (Univ. of Tokyo), M.Matsumoto (AIST), M.Inoue (Meiji Univ.), S.Fukushige (Waseda Univ.)

Carbon offsets

We offset the climate impact associated with a part of attendants' travelling to EcoDesign 2019 and catering (foods and drinks) during EcoDesign 2019.
Personal travels to our symposium likely represent the largest contribution to the carbon footprint of the symposium. The average round-trip international flight to EcoDesign 2019 symposium (at this occasion we counted only "international" flights) was calculated as about 13,000 km and to produce roughly 820 kg CO2-eq of GHG per passenger. The GHG emissions from international travel of attendants were calculated as about 80.6 ton CO2-eq.
For catering, GHG emissions associated with the meals (for lunch for 3 days, for reception on the first day, and for banquet on the second day) and coffee breaks were calculated. The amount was calculated as about 5.0 ton CO2-eq of GHG. Thanks to the efforts of the staffs in charge and for kind cooperation and understanding of symposium attendants, we had very little amount o food wastes during the symposium.
We offset 86 ton CO2-eq of GHG. For offsetting, we partnered with TCO2 Co., Ltd. The calculation of the carbon footprint and the certificate of the offset are available at the following page:   CO2 Reduction Certificate   (in Japanese)

About EcoDesign symposium

Since the first EcoDesign symposium in 1999, this symposium has led the research and practices of environmentally conscious design of products, services, manufacturing systems, supply chain, consumption, economics and society. Amidst ongoing advancement of technologies and changes in social needs, the circumstances surrounding EcoDesign are continuously progressing.

The purpose of EcoDesign symposium is to bring together worldwide professionals interested in advancing the state of the art in Eco-Design for exchanging knowledge that encompasses a broad range of disciplines among various distinct communities. In the symposiums, the latest issues on Eco-Design have been discussed. Professionals from industry, research laboratories, consulting, government, and academia are encouraged to attend.

EcoDesign2019 is cooperating with the following “Going Green” partner international conferences.

   

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