In a bold effort to minimize his carbon footprint, Gianluca Grimalda, a climate researcher from Norway, embarked on a 22,000-kilometer, 12-country journey to Papua New Guinea, avoiding flights for most of the trip. Grimalda's commitment to low-carbon travel resulted in an unconventional route, facing employer backlash and termination, but earning support from fellow climate researchers. Transflight team meber Jesse Schrage, who is a social scientist and doctoral fellow at the University of Bergen’s Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation in Norway commended Grimalda's leadership by saying that research institutions “are locked into high-carbon travel patterns and academics remain high emitters”.
The whole article about Grimalda’s journey can be found here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03496-3