Many scientists choose to involve fossil-fuel companies in academic research, assuming that those companies approach the climate crisis in good faith. But that assumption is tenuous (see, for example, D. Almond et al. Nature Clim. Change 12, 1122–1128; 2022). We urge academic institutions to re-evaluate their fossil-fuel connections.
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The authors are members of the Coalition for a True School of Sustainability: a student/staff/faculty group that speaks out against fossil fuel research funding at Stanford University’s Doerr School of Sustainability.