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The individual emissions of academic researchers are high compared to other professionals, "primarily as a result of emissions from flying to conferences, project meetings, and fieldwork". Touristic opportunities also contribute to motivating such travels, which are considered as a perk of the profession.<ref name="Tyndall"/> | |||
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<ref name="sl13">{{cite journal | last=Spinellis | first=Diomidis | last2=Louridas | first2=Panos | editor-last=Bohrer | editor-first=Gil | title=The Carbon Footprint of Conference Papers | journal=PLoS ONE | publisher=Public Library of Science (PLoS) | volume=8 | issue=6 | date=2013-06-26 | issn=1932-6203 | doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0066508 | page=e66508}}</ref> | <ref name="sl13">{{cite journal | last=Spinellis | first=Diomidis | last2=Louridas | first2=Panos | editor-last=Bohrer | editor-first=Gil | title=The Carbon Footprint of Conference Papers | journal=PLoS ONE | publisher=Public Library of Science (PLoS) | volume=8 | issue=6 | date=2013-06-26 | issn=1932-6203 | doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0066508 | page=e66508}}</ref> | ||
<ref name="Holthaus">{{cite web | last=Holthaus | first=Eric | title=I Went a Year Without Flying to Help Fight Climate Change | work=Slate Magazine | date=2014-10-02 | url=https://slate.com/technology/2014/10/plane-carbon-footprint-i-went-a-year-without-flying-to-fight-climate-change.html | accessdate=2020-02-09}}</ref> | <ref name="Holthaus">{{cite web | last=Holthaus | first=Eric | title=I Went a Year Without Flying to Help Fight Climate Change | work=Slate Magazine | date=2014-10-02 | url=https://slate.com/technology/2014/10/plane-carbon-footprint-i-went-a-year-without-flying-to-fight-climate-change.html | accessdate=2020-02-09}}</ref> | ||
<ref name="Tyndall">{{cite web | title=Towards a culture of low-carbon research for the 21st Century | work=Tyndall Working Paper 161 | url=https://tyndall.ac.uk/publications/tyndall-working-paper/2015/towards-culture-low-carbon-research-21st-century | accessdate=2020-02-09}}</ref> | |||
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[[Category:Air travel]] | [[Category:Air travel]] | ||
[[Category:Academia]] | [[Category:Academia]] | ||
Revision as of 21:21, 9 February 2020
Air travel is an essential part of the professional lives of many academics, and a major source of pollution from that sector. In the context of the climate crisis, there have been appeals to reduce air travel by replacing it with other modes of transportation, replacing it with videoconferencing, or renouncing inessential trips.
Role of air travel in academia
The individual emissions of academic researchers are high compared to other professionals, "primarily as a result of emissions from flying to conferences, project meetings, and fieldwork". Touristic opportunities also contribute to motivating such travels, which are considered as a perk of the profession.[1]
Attitudes of academics
Emissions and their reduction
The Template:CO2 emissions for a single conference trip were estimated to 7% of an average individual’s total Template:CO2 emissions. The total emissions of scientists travelling to conferences for presenting papers were estimated to 0.228% of international aviation emissions in 2008.[2]
In a case study of a PhD project, mobility represented 75% of the carbon footprint, which could have been reduced by 44% using videoconferencing. The total emissions were 21.5t Template:CO2-eq or 2.69t Template:CO2-eq per peer-reviewed paper.[3]
Activism
Voluntary reduction in air travel
Some academics reduce or stop flying in order to reduce their individual carbon footprints and/or to lead by example.
Meteorologist Eric Holthaus stopped flying in 2014, and claimed that slow travel made "his world shrink and become richer".[4]
External links
- Les ressources, a list of references including many on academic air travel, by Labos 1point5.
References
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