Distance and emissions from travel to astronomy meetings (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Distance and emissions from travel to astronomy meetings

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The inner ring of the pie chart shows how many short-, medium-, and long-haul trips were taken to reach astronomy meetings in 2019. The outer ring illustrates how much of the emissions were caused in total by type of trip length. (Source: Gokus et al., 2024, ‘Astronomy’s climate emissions: global travel to scientific meetings in 2019’ – Supplementary Material, PNAS Nexus)

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Gokus et al., 2024

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