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Academics say flying to meetings harms the climate – but they carry on
A survey at one of the biggest UK research universities finds that staff often end up flying to meetings despite a preference to avoid air travel.
The team analysed responses from 1,116 PhD students and staff who carry out research, teaching or both, and sorted them into clusters based on their attitudes towards academic travel. “It's the first time that this gap between attitudes and behaviour is actually addressed in a very direct way,” says Sebastian Jäckle, a political scientist at the University of Freiburg, Germany, who once cycled to a conference in Poland. The Radiological Society of North America meeting in 2017, for instance, drew more than 20,000 scientists to Chicago, Illinois, and accounted for at least 39,500 tonnes of carbon-dioxide emissions from flights 3.
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