Travel Petition

Sign up on this page. This petition/pledge has four elements, addressing four types of decision-makers. It includes both institutional and personal actions. We hope you will select all four elements, but if you select just some of them, we will identify you accordingly. We welcome support from anybody who self-identifies as “academic,” including faculty, students, and staff in a university or research institution.

Supporter counter: 2055. Includes 733 supporters from the older manual supporter list (from 2015 to July 2021) with the first 2 elements.

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I petition universities and institutions of higher education:

to include all university-related flying in their environmental impact measurement;
to support virtual conferencing and low-carbon forms of transport for faculty, staff, and students;
to set ambitious goals for emissions reductions in line with the cuts suggested by climate science; and
to use their influence with professional associations and funders to reduce flying and promote alternatives to flying.

I petition academic professional associations:

to report the environmental impact of their meetings;
to support virtual conferencing and low-carbon forms of transport for meetings;
to set ambitious goals for emissions reductions in line with the cuts suggested by climate science; and
to work with members to meet key professional objectives in ways that do not require flying.

I petition research funders:

to include all flying by grantees and staff in their environmental impact measurement;
to promote virtual meetings and low-carbon forms of transport for grantees and staff;
to set ambitious goals for emissions reductions in line with the cuts suggested by climate science; and
to use their influence with universities and professional associations to reduce flying.

I pledge myself:

to stop unnecessary flying;
to use virtual conferencing and lower-carbon transportation as alternatives to flying;
to promote fairness in emissions reductions by supporting steeper reductions for senior researchers and frequent flyers; and
to speak up with my peers in universities and professional associations for lower-carbon alternatives to flying.

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