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01-11-2020 | Climate Change | Editorial

Carbon footprint of air travel to international radiology conferences: FOMO?

Authors: Derya Yakar, Thomas C. Kwee

Published in: European Radiology | Issue 11/2020

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The inconvenient truth is that climate change is no longer an activists’ subject only. As scientists and medical professionals, it is our duty to promote and protect health. The successes that we have booked in the development of global health over the last decades are now under threat due to climate change. Paradoxically enough, as promoters of health, we are part of the problem. …

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Title: Carbon footprint of air travel to international radiology conferences: FOMO?
Authors: Derya Yakar
Thomas C. Kwee
Publication date: 01-11-2020
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keyword: Climate Change
Published in: European Radiology / Issue 11/2020
Print ISSN: 0938-7994
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1084
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-020-06988-2

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