500+ Academics Call for End to Climate Research Funded by Fossil Fuel Industry

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'Our universities must be climate leaders, not climate laggards,' said climate scientist Peter Kalmus ClimateHuman

Andrea GermanosUniversities in the U.S. and U.K. on Monday faced a demand from over 500 leading climate experts and academics to reject any environmental or energy research funding from the fossil fuel industry.

"Our universities must be climate leaders, not climate laggards," said Peter Kalmus, a climate scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the UCLA Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering. The letter was released by Fossil Free Research—a new international campaign calling on universities to sever ties with the fossil fuel industry.

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