[Coral-List] Proposal that ICRS supports the organization of remote meetings for ICRS 2020

Franziska Elmer franziskaelmer at hotmail.com
Fri Sep 6 17:23:18 UTC 2019


Dear coral list and Chelsie,

I completely agree with Chelsie that in order to have a strong impact on governments and big cooperations and show our concern about climate change that we have to speak with actions at the next ICRS conference. How can we convince them to radically change the way they do things to a more sustainable way if we dont do it ourselves.

I support Chelsie's idea of remote meetings and volunteer to help put a remote meeting together for the Caribbean (could include latin america or north america). This week I gave my current employer, School for Field Studies, a notice that I will resign from my current job as Marine Ecology Faculty by mid december in order to focus my time and energy on climate solutions. I have the financial cushion to volunteer a year's time (or maybe more) to this cause and see it as my duty to do so, as we wont be able to solve this crisis without pulling available resources and thinking power together. Hopefully soon our leaders will realize this as well and start funneling money towards these kinds of jobs and projects. As part of my "climate sabbatical", I could help or lead the organization of a remote meeting for my region which is currently the wider caribbean. I have been part of the organization comittee of three international conferences so far and am currently the chair of the sustainability comittee for the association of marine laboratories in the caribbean, I therefore got the know how to do this job and ple ty of time on my hands. The emissions saved and more importantly the strong message this will send to our world leaders will make this a worthwhile project to focus on during my sabbatical.

Best,

Franziska Elmer




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