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Academic conferences urgently need environmental policies

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To the Editor — For nearly a decade, environmental scientists have deplored the paradox of needing to fly to conferences1,2,3 and have increasingly called for sustainable conferencing4,5. Have conferences responded by reducing their environmental impact?

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We thank M. Di Marco and C. Fletcher for helpful comments on the manuscript, and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions for funding.

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  1. Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

    Matthew H. Holden, Nathalie Butt, Alienor Chauvenet, Martin Stringer & Iadine Chadès

  2. School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

    Matthew H. Holden, Nathalie Butt & Alienor Chauvenet

  3. Centre for Applications in Natural Resource Mathematics, School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

    Matthew H. Holden

  4. School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

    Michaela Plein & Martin Stringer

  5. CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia

    Iadine Chadès

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Holden, M.H., Butt, N., Chauvenet, A. et al. Academic conferences urgently need environmental policies. Nat Ecol Evol 1, 1211–1212 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0296-2

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