Climate change is an ongoing and escalating health emergency. It threatens the health and
wellbeing of billions of people, through extreme weather events, displacement, food …

Current trends in air transport are inconsistent with international climate goals. Without
substantial changes from business-as-usual travel demand, neither new technologies nor …

Academia has experienced acceleration and expansion in parallel with the Great
Acceleration, which has shaped the Anthropocene. Among other pressures, the expectation …

Academic conferences are important places for exchanging scientific knowledge and
building professional networks, but they also contribute to climate change through emissions …

Although evidence about the environmental harm of air travel is growing, the goal of
internationalization remains firmly built into academia. The aim of this article is to study this …

Travel to academic conferences—where international flights are the norm—is responsible
for a sizeable fraction of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with academic …

Purpose European Union (EU) research projects generally involve international teams
based in different countries. This means that researchers need to travel internationally to …

Background Activities embedded in academic culture (international conferences, field
missions) are an important source of greenhouse gas emissions. For this reason, collective …

Making academia more sustainable necessitates reducing emissions from academic air
travel substantially. This requires a transformation of the academic system, including norms …

Astronomy has a long history of innovative global collaboration, stretching back more than a
century. Over the course of the last few decades, the discipline has embraced many …