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Paradox of flying to meetings to protect the environment

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Regular long-distance flying can easily triple an academic's carbon footprint. During the past year, I have 'spent' about nine tonnes of carbon, two-thirds of this on plane trips. Yet I am a good consumer otherwise (see http://www.carbonfootprint.com), and I don't even own a car. Such figures are particularly hard for field ecologists to stomach, as we hope our long-term work will highlight the environmental consequences of climate change and may ultimately influence the public and policy-makers.

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  1. Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive — CNRS, 1919 route de Mende, Montpellier, F-34293, France

    David Grémillet

  2. FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa

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