Declaration

Declaration on an Academic Response to the Planetary Crisis

December 14, 2023

We, the undersigned,

Recognizing that we are in the midst of a planetary crisis arising from climate change, extreme biodiversity loss, the reaching of tipping points, and the crossing of planetary boundaries, causing immense suffering, the potential loss of millions of human and non-human lives, and an existential threat to humanity;

That, as teachers and educators, we educate the next generation;

That, as academic researchers, we absolutely respect the freedom to choose our areas of work, yet have a moral responsibility to respond to the planetary crisis;

That, as judges of academic research, awards, tenure and promotion cases, and research proposals, we have the power to steer the direction of travel of our peers;

That, as members of universities and colleges, we have the right to propose, vote on, and advocate for the policies adopted by our employers;

Therefore, will ourselves endeavour and urge our academic colleagues:

To educate others about the causes and consequences of the planetary crisis and suitable courses of action, keeping in mind the critical need for climate justice and including diverse voices;
When appropriate, to orient their research towards approaches that will mitigate or avert the crisis and to ponder potentially negative outcomes of research outputs;
When reviewing a grant, tenure or promotion case, award, fellowship, or paper to reward work that addresses the planetary crisis and actively challenge work to the contrary;
To engage with professional societies to put into place policies that encourage papers in academic conferences and journals to state how they address the planetary crisis;
To engage with their places of employment to help them rapidly decarbonise education and educational infrastructure, including reducing the carbon and ecological impact of energy, buildings, travel, and food; restoring biodiversity; and adopting sustainable practices;
To travel by air only as the last resort; instead, using lower-carbon modes of transport and advocating for and relying on online participation in academic events;
To shun funding for research or training from or indirect support of corporations and entities that either deny climate change or through their (in)action worsen the planetary crisis.

Please sign or circulate this form and feel free to get in touch with Srinivasan Keshav (sk818@cam.ac.uk) or Lena Yang (lyr24@cam.ac.uk).

Signatories of the Declaration

No.	Name	Title	Organisation
1	A. Marinoni	Associate Professor of AI for Climate Transformation	UiT the Arctic University of Norway
2	A. W. Moore	Professor of Networked Systems	University of Cambridge
3	Aaditeshwar Seth	Professor	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
4	Adam Wierman	Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences	Caltech
5	Agata Jackiewicz	Professor	Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, France
6	Alice Hutchings	Professor of Emergent Harms	University of Cambridge
7	Amâncio Lucas de Sousa Pereira	Assistant Researcher	ITI, LARSyS, Técnico Lisboa, University of Lisbon
8	Ana Cláudia Campos	Assistant Professor	University of Algarve
9	Anaïs Berkes	Ph.D. Student	University of Cambridge
10	András Reith	Senior Research Fellow	University of Pécs, Hungary
11	Andrea Marinoni	Professor of Environmental Data Science	UiT the Arctic University of Norway
12	Andreas Vlachos	Professor of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning	University of Cambridge
13	Anil Madhavapeddy	Professor of Planetary Computing	University of Cambridge
14	Ankit R. Patel	Research Assistant	Inclusive Transportation, University of Minho, Portugal
15	Ann Pomeroy	Senior Research Fellow	Centre For Sustainabity Otago University
16	Antonio Russo (aka Paolo)	Professor	Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain
17	Anuj Dawar	Professor of Logic and Algorithms	University of Cambridge
18	Apurva Narayan	Assistant Professor	University of Western Ontario
19	Ashwin Ashok	Associate Professor	Computer Science, Georgia State University, USA
20	Ashwin Nayak	Professor	Combinatorics and Optimisation, University of Waterloo, Canada
21	Astrid Nieße	Professor for Digitalized Energy Systems	Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
22	Asun Rodríguez-Uña	Newton International Fellow	University of Cambridge
23	Aude Carreric	Postdoctoral Researcher	Earth Sciences Department, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
24	Aude Valade	Researcher	Cirad
25	Aura Parmentier-Cajaiba	Associate Professor	Strategy and Organization, Gredeg, CNRS, Université Côte d’Azur
26	Aurélien Falco	Research Engineer	Sorbonne Université
27	Azael Fernandez	Academic and Research Engineer	National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico
28	Barbara Tomasella	Assistant Professor	Derby University
29	Benjamin J. McCall	Professor of Sustainability	University of Dayton
30	Benjamin Mauroy	Research Director	CNRS
31	Bharathan Balaji	Senior Applied Scientist	Amazon
32	Bienvenido Ortega	Professor	University of Malaga
33	Brian Garrod	Professor	Swansea University
34	C Atzberger	Professor for Geomatics	University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna.
35	C. E. Rasmussen	Professor of Machine Learning	University of Cambridge
36	Caroline Orchiston	Director, Centre for Sustainability	University of Otago
37	Carter A Hunt	Associate Professor	The Pennsylvania State University
38	Cédric Gaucherel	Senior scientist	INRAE
39	Chadley R Hollas	Presidential Graduate Fellow and PhD Student	University of Georgia
40	Cheikh CISSÉ	Ph.D. Student	Urban-Planner, Affliate Researcher at African Studies Centre Leiden, Netherlands
41	Chen Ma	Assistant Professor	Department of Computer Science, City University of HongKong, China
42	Chi Lin	Associate Professor	School of Software Technology, Dalian University of Technology, China
43	Chigozie Jude ODUM	Lecturer	University of Nigeria Nsukka
44	Cláudia Patrícia de Almeida Seabra Moreira	Associate Professor	University of Coimbra (Portugal)
45	Craig Robert Bunt	Professor of Agricultural Innovation	University of Otago
46	Dan Wang	Professor	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
47	Daniela Wagner	Academic Expert & Lecturer	Vienna University of Applied Sciences for Management and Communication
48	David Coomes	Professor	Conservation Research Institute and Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK
49	David Irwin	Professor	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst
50	David P. Reed	Ph.D. Student	former professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
51	Debbie Hopkins	Associate Professor	University of Oxford
52	Dhruv Kumar	Assistant Professor	IIIT Delhi
53	Dini Hajarrahmah	Ph.D. Student	Virginia Tech
54	D. Orchard	Co-director of the Institute of Computing for Climate Science	University of Cambridge and Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Kent
55	Edouard Kleinpeter	Research Engineer	CNRS, University of Bordeaux, France
56	Edward H. Huijbens	Professor	Wageningen University
57	Eiko Yoneki	Affiliated Lecturer and Senior Researcher	Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
58	Eke Eijgelaar	Senior researcher Sustainable Tourism and Transport	Breda University of Applied Sciences
59	Eliott Marceau	Student / Intern	ISAE-SUPAERO / LATMOS
60	Elizabeth Ann Halpenny	Professor	University of Alberta
61	Elodie Vercken	Research Director	INRAE, Université Côte d’Azur, France
62	Emily R Lines	Associate Professor in Physical Geography	University of Cambridge
63	Emmanuel Salim	Assistant Professor	University Toulouse Jean Jaurès
64	Esther Borkowski	Postdoctoral Researcher	ETH Zürich
65	Etienne Pauthenet	Data Scientist in Oceanography	LOPS - IRD
66	F. Silvestri	Professor of Artificial Intelligence	Sapienza University of Rome
67	Fanny Lhardy	Maîtresse de conférences	ENS de Lyon
68	Florence Volaire	Researcher in Ecology	INRAE France
69	Franz Baumann, Ph.D.	President-elect	Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS)
70	Frédéric Machefert	Researcher Director	CNRS (IJCLab Orsay), France
71	Frederic Thomas	Associate professor	Institut de Recherche et d'Etudes Supérieures du Tourisme
72	Freya Higgins-Desbiolles	Adjunct Senior Lecturer	University of South Australia
73	Gaëlle Letort	Research Engineer	CNRS/Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
74	Gilles Frison	Research Director	CNRS, Sorbonne Université, France
75	Gloria Crabolu	Lecturer in Sustainable Tourism	University of Exeter
76	Guido Cimadamore	Ph.D. Student	University of Cambridge
77	Guillaume Blanc	Researcher	Université Paris Cité
78	Guillaume Ferlat	Professor	Sorbonne Université
79	Hamed Haddadi	Professor of Human-Centred Systems	Imperial College London
80	Hartmut Schmeck	KIT Distinguished Senior Fellow	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
81	Helen Oliver	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Birkbeck College
82	Henri Kuokkanen	Associate Professor	Institut Lyfe
83	Hui Xia	Professor	Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, China
84	Ian Robert Lamond	Senior Lecturer	Leeds Beckett University
85	Isabelle Cloquet	Professor	Université Libre de Bruxelles
86	Isabelle Falardeau	Professeure en Tourisme et Développement Social	Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
87	Isabelle Tournier	Lecturer	Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3
88	Isis Arlene Díaz-Carrión	Tenure Professor	Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
89	Ivana Volić	Lecturer	Independent Scholar
90	Jon Crowcroft	Researcher-at-large	The Alan Turing Institute, UK
91	Jakob Poffley	Postgraduate Student	University of Cambridge
92	Jakub Kronenberg	Associate Professor	University of Lodz
93	James David Cotter	Professor	University of Otago
94	James Higham	Professor	Griffith University
95	Janet Rhona Stephenson	Research Professor	Centre for Sustainability, University of Otago
96	Jatin Nathwani	Professor	Management Science/Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo and Fellow,Balsillie School of International Affairs, Canada
97	Jean-Michel Salles	Senior Researcher (Directeur de Recherche)	CNRS
98	Jeffrey Shallit	Professor	School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
99	Jérôme Guilet	Researcher	CEA Saclay, France
100	Jérôme Vialard	Senior Scientist	Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)
101	Jie Wang	Professor	Information Science and Technology College, Dalian Maritime University, China
102	Jie Xiong	Associate Professor	College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
103	Joe Petrik	Cheriton School of Computer Science	University of Waterloo,Canada
104	José Castillo Lema	Professor	IFFE Business School, A Coruña
105	Joseph Petrik	Communications Officer, Cheriton School of Computer Science	University of Waterloo
106	Josephine Guiver	Researcher & Lecturer	University of Central Lancashire
107	Josyane Ronchail	Climate Researcher	Laboratory of Ocean and Climate LOCEAN
108	Ju Wang	Professor	Northwest University, China
109	Julian Carrey	Professor in Physics	University of Toulouse, France
110	Kamiar Mohaddes	Associate Professor in Economics & Policy	University of Cambridge
111	Khuzaima Daudjee	Faculty	University of Waterloo
112	Larry Dwyer	Visiting Professor	University of Technology, Sydney
113	Laurent Bétermin	Maître de Conférence en Mathématiques	Institut Camille Jordan, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
114	Laurent Pagani	Astrophysicist	CNRS & Observatoire de Paris
115	Laurent Perrin	Research Director	CNRS
116	Léa Bonnefoy	Postdoc in Astrophysics	LMD, Sorbonne Université
117	Lena Yang	Assistant Staff	University of Cambridge
118	Liqiong Chang	Lecturer	School of Information Science and Technology, Northwest University, Xi’an, China.
119	Lisa Ruhanen	Professor and Deputy Head of UQ Business School	The University of Queensland
120	Liu Yue	Post-graduate(research) Student	Hainan University
121	Luc Deneire	Professor	Université Côte d’Azur, France
122	Lucas Pereira	Assistant Researcher	Técnico Lisboa, University of Lisbon, Portugal
123	M. Chen	Professor	School of Data Science, City University of Hong Kong
124	M. Jagersand	Professor	CS University of Alberta, Canada
125	M. Tamer Özsu	Professor	University of Waterloo, Canada
126	Machiel Lamers	Associate Professor	Wageningen University & Research
127	Maliha Ashraf	Postdoctoral Researcher	Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge
128	Marie-Alice Foujols	Ingénieure de Recherche	CNRS, IPSL, Sorbonne Université
129	Mark D. Ohman	Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Division	Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego
130	Martijn Duineveld	Associate Professor	Wageningen University
131	Matthias Beekmann	Research Director	CNRS
132	Matthis Auger	Research Associate	University of Tasmania
133	Mayukh Dewan	Manager	Florsheim Australia
134	Michael Lück	Professor	Indepedent
135	Michael Menth	Professor	University of Tuebingen, Germany
136	Milto Miltiadou	Postdoctoral Research Associate	University of Cambridge
137	Mireia Guix	Lecturer	University of Queensland
138	Mukesh Tiwari	Senior Research Associate	University of Oxford
139	N.M. Gale	Research Associate	University of Cambridge
140	Nathalie Fromin	Researcher	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
141	O. Ardakanian	Associate Professor of Computing Science	University of Alberta
142	Océane Foix	Postdoctoral Researcher	Géosciences Montpellier, Montpellier, France
143	Olivier Plantard	Research Director	Animal health, INRAE, Oniris-VetAgroBio Nantes, France
144	Omid Ardakanian	Associate Professor	University of Alberta
145	P. Lió	Professor of Computational Biology	University of Cambridge
146	P. Shenoy	Distinguished Professor	University of Massachusetts, USA
147	Pablo Pereira-Doel	Assistant professor	University of Surrey
148	Paola Minoia	Associate Professor	University of Turin
149	Pascal Maugis	Researcher	Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
150	Paul Peeters	Distinguished Professor sustainable transport for tourism	Breda University of Aplied Sciences
151	Philippe Borsa	Directeur de Recherche	Institut de Recherche Pour le Développement, France
152	Pierrick Labbé	Professor	University of Montpellier
153	Prisiclla Wehi	Associate Professor	University of Otago
154	Priya Donti	Assistant Professor	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
155	Qiao Xiang	Professor	Xiamen University
156	Rachael Garrett	Moran Professor of Conservation and Development	University of Cambridge
157	Ramit Debnath	Assistant Professor	University of Cambridge
158	Raymond Rastegar	Lecturer	Griffith University
159	Rémi Laxenaire	Researcher	Laboratoire de l'Atmosphère et des Cyclones (LACy, Île de la Réunion)
160	Richard Bethlehem	Assistant Professor	University of Cambridge
161	Rijurekha Sen	Assistant Professor	Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi, India
162	Rinzing Lama	Assistant Professor	Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management
163	Roland Bless	Assistant Professor	Computer Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
164	Romain Jacob	Postdoctoral Researcher	ETH Zürich
165	Ronita Bardhan	Associate Professor of Sustainable Built Environment	University of Cambridge, UK
166	S. Al-Kiswany	Associate Professor	University of Waterloo, Canada
167	S. Arun-Kumar	Professor Computer Science and Engineering	IIT Delhi, India
168	S. Keshav	Robert Sansom Professor of Computer Science	University of Cambridge, UK
169	S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh	Professor of Sustainable Tourism	Edith Cowan University
170	Samalam Arun-Kumar	Professor	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
171	Sandro Carnicelli	Professor of Tourism and Leisure Studies	University of the West of Scotland
172	Sébastien Rumley	Associate Professor in Software Engineering	University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland HES-SO, Switzerland
173	Sophie Godin-Beekmann	Director of Research	CNRS
174	Stephen Lee	Assistant Professor	University of Pittsburgh
175	Steven Low	Gilloon Professor of Computing & Mathematical Sciences, and Electrical Engineering	Caltech
176	Stewart McTavish	Affiliated Lecturer	University of Cambridge
177	Stian Soiland-Reyes	Senior Lecturer	Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, UK
178	Stroma Cole	Reader	University of Westminster
179	Stuart Grieve	Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography	Queen Mary University of London
180	Tatsuya 'Ted' Oka	Professor	School of Tourism, Tokai University
181	Tiago Brant de Carvalho Falcao	Ph.D. Candidate	Griffith University
182	Tom Gur	Associate Professor	University of Cambridge
183	Travis Gibbons	Assistant Professor	Northern Arizona University
184	Usama Bin Perwez	Assistant Professor	NUST Pakistan
185	Valério Rodrigues de Souza Neto	Ph.D. Candidate	Griffith Aviation/Griffith Institute For Tourism - Griffith University
186	Vettier Ludovic	Reserach Engineer	LATMOS
187	Vincent Echevin	Research Scientist	IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement)
188	Viot Quentin	Intern	LATMOS (IPSL)
189	William Waites	Lecturer in Computer and Information Sciences	University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
190	Willy Legrand	Professor	IU International University of Applied Sciences, Germany
191	Wim Vanderbauwhede	Professor in Low Carbon and Sustainable Computing	School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, UK
192	Wolfgang Cramer	Professor of Global Ecology	CNRS, Member Académie d'Agriculture de France
193	Xavier Capet	Oceanographer	LOCEAN, CNRS
194	Xiaofan (Fred) Jiang	Associate Professor	Columbia University
195	Ya-Yen Sun	Associate Professor	University of Queensland
196	Yael Ram	Associate Professor	Ashkelon Academic College
197	Yusuf Sayed	Professor of Education	University of Cambridge
198	Zoltan Nagy	Assistant Professor	The University of Texas at Austin

Declaration on an Academic Response to the Planetary Crisis

To educate others about the causes and consequences of the planetary crisis and suitable courses of action, keeping in mind the critical need for climate justice and including diverse voices;

When appropriate, to orient their research towards approaches that will mitigate or avert the crisis and to ponder potentially negative outcomes of research outputs;

When reviewing a grant, tenure or promotion case, award, fellowship, or paper to reward work that addresses the planetary crisis and actively challenge work to the contrary;

To engage with professional societies to put into place policies that encourage papers in academic conferences and journals to state how they address the planetary crisis;

To engage with their places of employment to help them rapidly decarbonise education and educational infrastructure, including reducing the carbon and ecological impact of energy, buildings, travel, and food; restoring biodiversity; and adopting sustainable practices;

To travel by air only as the last resort; instead, using lower-carbon modes of transport and advocating for and relying on online participation in academic events;

To shun funding for research or training from or indirect support of corporations and entities that either deny climate change or through their (in)action worsen the planetary crisis.

Please sign or circulate this form and feel free to get in touch with Srinivasan Keshav (sk818@cam.ac.uk) or Lena Yang (lyr24@cam.ac.uk).

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