Climate Pledge 2025

We, colleagues at UCPH Anthropology, pledge in 2025 that we will

  • Combine different plane trips into one, whenever possible (i.e take fewer and longer trips combining different purposes)
  • Fly to conferences only if taking on an active role in an international panel/workshop/roundtable
  • Ask our invited international guests to travel by train/bus instead of taking short-distance flights (see next point below)

Furthermore, we renew our former pledges to

  • Travel by train or bus to destinations reachable within 13 hours (including Oslo, Stockholm, Uppsala, Prague and all major towns in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium)
  • Reduce food waste by labelling private food items in fridges, making non-labelled food available for anyone, and by sharing leftover food from meetings with students in ‘Katten’
  • Minimise our carbon footprint while studying, researching and teaching
  • Only order vegetarian (with vegan options) and mostly organic food and drinks for social and academic events
  • Ban the use of bottled water and small portions of butter, jam, milk or cheese
  • Ban the use of disposable glasses, cups, plates and cutlery

If you want to join the Circle of Green Anthropologists to help organize swap markets, clothing repair workshops, or communal meals, please write to: greencircle-anthro@samf.ku.dk

Flier version of our climate pledge: Climate pledge 2025