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Why this title ?

Also, low number of respondents and considering the survey went through his own twitter with a Climate Code idea, probably very biaised sample.

However, I'd totally favour a company with a flight offsetting policy. Can anyone point me some?

Though I agree face to face is definitely a different experience. My point is maybe crossing oceans is not mandatory to learn from one another. A while ago people didn't had the choice, yet they were able to do much in all science.

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People still crossed the oceans, they just took a bit longer. Nowadays you can still take a trip on a freight ship, but it'll take about 10-15 days to cross the Atlantic (EU-US).

Maybe once Starlink launches, one could treat it as a remote office. Definitively more comfortable than working through a red-eye.

Yeah, sometimes scientists moved to another lab overseas, but rarely on a whim, and for longer periods. Still, there are so many people around, surely there must be some that can challenge our thoughts or enrich our network without having to fly planes.

Maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but there are some resources here.

https://chooose.today/

That looks and reads bad. I don't even get the point of the initiative :( Not what I'm looking for at all it seems. I just want company names that actively discourage/limit flying their employees.

The goal of this project is to destruct carbon credits (tradable certificate or permit representing the right to emit one tonne of carbon), it won't at all capture or even offset CO2 emission, it will only slightly raise the price of carbon credit. It is a totally misleading for the website to say that it will reduce your carbon footprint.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_credit

For these reasons, I limit myself to North American conferences. I derive a great deal from conferences; the face to face interactions and asking questions during question period are crucial to understanding the limits of the presented work (and not particularly apparent at all in the final paper). But, travel, esp. overseas, is time-consuming and expensive. The acceptable trade-off personally seems to be self-imposed geographical restriction.

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