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

165 signatories and counting...

Full Name	Title	Organisation
Omid Ardakanian	Associate Professor	University of Alberta
Samalam Arun-Kumar	Professor	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Clement Atzberger	Head of Research	Mantle Labs Ltd
Matthis Auger	Research Associate	University of Tasmania
Yuchen Bai	Ph.D. Student	Grenoble Alpes University
Bharathan Balaji	Senior Applied Scientist	Amazon
Ronita Bardhan	Associate Professor of Sustainable Built Environment	University of Cambridge
Franz Baumann	President-elect	Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS)
Matthias Beekmann	Research director	CNRS
Anaïs Berkes	Ph.D. Student	University of Cambridge
Myriam Besson	Ph.D. Student	LMD, Paris
Laurent Bétermin	Maître de Conférence en Mathématiques	Institut Camille Jordan, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Richard Bethlehem	Assistant Professor	University of Cambridge
Guillaume Blanc	Researcher	Université Paris Cité
Roland Bless	Assistant Professor	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Esther Borkowski	Postdoctoral Researcher	ETH Zürich
Philippe Borsa	Directeur de Recherche	Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France
Craig Robert Bunt	Professor of Agricultural Innovation	University of Otago
Ana Cláudia Campos	Assistant Professor	University of Algarve
Xavier Capet	Oceanographer	LOCEAN, CNRS
JF Cardoso	Researcher	CNRS
Sandro Carnicelli	Professor of Tourism and Leisure Studies	University of the West of Scotland
Aude Carreric	Postdoctoral Researcher	Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Marcos Castro	Associate Professor	University of Malaga
Harry Charrington	Head of School of Architecture + Cities	University of Westminster
Minghua Chen	Professor	City University of Hong Kong
Cheikh CISSÉ	Urban Planner / Affiliate Researcher	African Studies Centre Leiden (Netherlands)
Soufflet Clément	Researcher in Meteorology	Météo France - LACy
Isabelle Cloquet	Professor	Université Libre de Bruxelles
Stroma Cole	Reader	University of Westminster
James David Cotter	Professor	University of Otago
Gloria Crabolu	Lecturer in Sustainable Tourism	University of Exeter
Wolfgang Cramer	Professor of Global Ecology	CNRS, Member Académie d'Agriculture de France
Jon Crowcroft	Professor	University of Cambridge
Khuzaima Daudjee	Faculty	University of Waterloo
Ramit Debnath	Assistant Professor	University of Cambridge
Mayukh Dewan	Manager	Florsheim Australia
Isis Arlene Díaz-Carrión	Tenure Professor	Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
Janet Dickinson	Professor in Sustainable Practice	Bournemouth University
Jennifer Duffy	Trainee and Research Assistant	University of British Columbia
Martijn Duineveld	Associate Professor	Wageningen University
Jean-Baptiste Durand	Researcher	Université de Montpellier
Larry Dwyer	Visiting Professor	University of Technology, Sydney
Vincent Echevin	Research Scientist	IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement)
Johan Edelheim	Professor (of Tourism and Media)	Hokkaido University
Eke Eijgelaar	Senior Researcher Sustainable Tourism and Transport	Breda University of Applied Sciences
Isabelle Falardeau	Professeure en Tourisme et Développement Social	Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Tiago Brant de Carvalho Falcao	Ph.D. Candidate	Griffith University
Aurélien Falco	Research Engineer	Sorbonne Université
Guillaume Ferlat	Professor	Sorbonne Université
Marie-Alice Foujols	Ingénieure de Recherche	CNRS, IPSL, Sorbonne Université
Giovanni Frati	Forests Remote Sensing Research Engineer	IRD
Nathalie Fromin	Researcher	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Brian Garrod	Professor	Swansea University
Travis Gibbons	Assistant Professor	Northern Arizona University
Sophie Godin-Beekmann	Director of Research	CNRS
Cristina Ortega González	PhD Student and Teaching Assistant	University of Malaga
Stuart Grieve	Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography	Queen Mary University of London
Josephine Guiver	Researcher & Lecturer	University of Central Lancashire
Mireia Guix	Lecturer	University of Queensland
Tom Gur	Associate Professor	University of Cambridge
Hamed Haddadi	Professor of Human-Centred Systems	Imperial College London
Dini Hajarrahmah	Ph.D. Student	Virginia Tech
Elizabeth Ann Halpenny	Professor	University of Alberta
Freya Higgins-Desbiolles	Adjunct Senior Lecturer	University of South Australia
James Higham	Professor	Griffith University
Chadley R Hollas	Presidential Graduate Fellow and Ph.D. Student	University of Georgia
Debbie Hopkins	Associate Professor	University of Oxford
Edward H. Huijbens	Professor	Wageningen University
Carter A Hunt	Associate Professor	Penn State University
Alice Hutchings	Professor	University of Cambridge
David Irwin	Professor	University of Massachusetts Amherst
Agata Jackiewicz	Professor	Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, France
Romain Jacob	Postdoctoral Researcher	ETH Zürich
Xiaofan (Fred) Jiang	Associate Professor	Columbia University
S. Keshav	Robert Sansom Professor of Computer Science	University of Cambridge, UK
Maria Kramer	Senior Lecturer	University of Westminster
Jakub Kronenberg	Associate Professor	University of Lodz
Dhruv Kumar	Assistant Professor	IIIT Delhi
Henri Kuokkanen	Associate Professor	Institut Lyfe
Pierrick Labbé	Professor	University of Montpellier
Rinzing Lama	Assistant Professor	Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management
Machiel Lamers	Associate Professor	Wageningen University & Research
Ian Robert Lamond	Senior Lecturer	Leeds Beckett University
Rémi Laxenaire	Chercheur	Laboratoire de l'Atmosphère et des Cyclones (LACy, Île de la Réunion)
Stephen Lee	Assistant Professor	University of Pittsburgh
Willy Legrand	Professor	IU International University of Applied Sciences, Germany
José Castillo Lema	Professor	IFFE Business School
Fanny Lhardy	Maîtresse de conférences	ENS de Lyon
Emily R Lines	Associate Professor in Physical Geography	University of Cambridge
Steven Low	Gilloon Professor of Computing & Mathematical Sciences, and Electrical Engineering	Caltech
Deneire Luc	Professor	Université Côte d'Azur
Michael Lück	Professor	Independent
Anil Madhavapeddy	Professor of Planetary Computing	University of Cambridge
Eliott Marceau	Student / Intern	ISAE-SUPAERO / LATMOS
Andrea Marinoni	Professor of Environmental Data Science	UiT the Arctic University of Norway
Pascal Maugis	Researcher	Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
Benjamin Mauroy	Research Director	CNRS
Benjamin J. McCall	Professor of Sustainability	University of Dayton
Michael Menth	Professor	University of Tuebingen, Germany
Milto Miltiadou	Postdoctoral Research Associate	University of Cambridge
Paola Minoia	Associate Professor	University of Turin
Kamiar Mohaddes	Associate Professor in Economics & Policy	University of Cambridge
Andrew William Moore	Professor	University of Cambridge
Cláudia Patrícia de Almeida Seabra	Associate Professor	University of Coimbra (Portugal)
Zoltan Nagy	Assistant Professor	The University of Texas at Austin
Apurva Narayan	Assistant Professor	University of Western Ontario
Jatin Nathwani	Professor	University of Waterloo
U. Ashwin K.V. Nayak	Professor	University of Waterloo
Valério Rodrigues de Souza Neto	Ph.D. Candidate	Griffith Aviation/Griffith Institute For Tourism - Griffith University
Astrid Nieße	Professor for Digitalized Energy Systems	Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Chigozie Jude Odum	Lecturer	University of Nigeria Nsukka
Mark D. Ohman	Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Division	Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego
Tatsuya 'Ted' Oka	Professor	School of Tourism, Tokai University
Helen Oliver	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Birkbeck, University of London
Dominic Orchard	Co-director of the Institute of Computing for Climate Science	University of Cambridge
Caroline Orchiston	Director, Centre for Sustainability	University of Otago
Bienvenido Ortega	Professor	University of Malaga
Laurent Pagani	Astrophysicist	CNRS & Observatoire de Paris
Guillaume Papuga	Lecturer in Ecology	Université de Montpellier (France)
Ankit R. Patel	Research Scholar	University of Minho, Portugal
Etienne Pauthenet	Data Scientist in Oceanography	LOPS - IRD
Paul Peeters	Distinguished Professor sustainable transport for tourism	Breda University of Aplied Sciences
Amâncio Lucas de Sousa Pereira	Assistant Researcher	ITI, LARSyS, Técnico Lisboa, University of Lisbon
Pablo Pereira-Doel	Assistant Professor	University of Surrey
Laurent Perrin	Research Director	CNRS
Joseph Petrik	Communications Officer, Cheriton School of Computer Science	University of Waterloo
Jakob Poffley	Postgraduate Student	University of Cambridge
Ann Pomeroy	Senior Research Fellow	Centre For Sustainabity Otago University
Yael Ram	Associate Professor	Ashkelon Academic College
Carl Edward Rasmussen	Professor of Machine Learning	University of Cambridge
S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh	Professor of Sustainable Tourism	Edith Cowan University
Raymond Rastegar	Lecturer	Griffith University
Asun Rodríguez-Uña	Newton International Fellow	University of Cambridge
Josyane Ronchail	Climate Researcher	Laboratory of Ocean and Climate LOCEAN
Lisa Ruhanen	Professor and Deputy Head of UQ Business School	The University of Queensland
Sébastien Rumley	Associate Professor of Software Engineeering	University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland
Antonio Russo (aka Paolo)	Professor	Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain
Emmanuel Salim	Assistant Professor	University Toulouse Jean Jaurès
Jean-Michel Salles	Senior Researcher (Directeur de Recherche)	CNRS
Yusuf Sayed	Professor of Education	University of Cambridge
Hartmut Schmeck	KIT Distinguished Senior Fellow	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Aaditeshwar Seth	Professor	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Janet Rhona Stephenson	Research Professor	Centre for Sustainability, University of Otago
Ya-Yen Sun	Associate Professor	University of Queensland
Frederic Thomas	Associate Professor	Institut de Recherche et d'Etudes Supérieures du Tourisme
Barbara Tomasella	Assistant Professor	Derby University
Isabelle Tournier	Lecturer	Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3
Joshua Tremblay	Lecturer in Cardiovascular and Exercise Physiology	Cardiff Metropolitan University
Martin Turbet	Research Scientist	CNRS
Aude Valade	Researcher	Cirad
Jérôme Vialard	Senior Scientist	Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)
Andreas Vlachos	Professor	University of Cambridge
Florence Volaire	Researcher in Ecology	INRAE France
Ivana Volić	Lecturer	Independent Scholar
Daniela Wagner	Academic Expert & Lecturer	Vienna University of Applied Sciences for Management and Communication
William Waites	Principal Research Engineer	University of Southampton
Wim Wanderbauwhede	Professor in Low Carbon and Sustainable Computing	University of Glasgow
Dan Wang	Professor	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Ju Wang	Professor	Northwest University, China
Prisiclla Wehi	Associate Professor	University of Otago
Qiao Xiang	Professor	Xiamen University
Lena Yang	Assistant Staff	University of Cambridge
Eiko Yoneki	Senior Researcher	University of Cambridge
Liu Yue	Post-graduate(research) Student	Hainan University

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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