Title:	Environmental sustainability in basic research. A perspective from HECAP+
Authors:	Banerjee, Shankha Chen, Thomas Y David, Claire Düren, Michael Erbin, Harold Ghiglieri, Jacopo Gill, Mandeep S S Glaser, L Gütschow, Christian Hall, Jack Joseph Hampp, Johannes Koppenburg, Patrick Koschnitzke, Matthias Lohwasser, Kristin Mahbubani, Rakhi Mehta, Viraf Millington, Peter Paul, Ayan Poblotzki, Frauke Potamianos, Karolos Šarčević, Nikolina Shastri, Prajval Singh, Rajeev Wakeling, Hannah Walker, Rodney van der Wild, Matthijs Zurita, Pia
Issue Date:	11-Mar-2025
Publisher:	Journal of Instrumentation
Citation:	Journal of Instrumentation, 2025, Vol. 20, AR No. P03012
Abstract:	The climate crisis and the degradation of the world's ecosystems require humanity to take immediate action. The international scientific community has a responsibility to limit the negative environmental impacts of basic research. The HECAP+ communities (High Energy Physics, Cosmology, Astroparticle Physics, and Hadron and Nuclear Physics) make use of common and similar experimental infrastructure, such as accelerators and observatories, and rely similarly on the processing of big data. Our communities therefore face similar challenges to improving the sustainability of our research. This document aims to reflect on the environmental impacts of our work practices and research infrastructure, to highlight best practice, to make recommendations for positive changes, and to identify the opportunities and challenges that such changes present for wider aspects of social responsibility.
Description:	Restricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations)
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/2289/8650
ISSN:	1748-0221
Alternative Location:	https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.02837 http://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/20/03/P03012
Copyright:	2025 The Author(s)
Appears in Collections:	Research Papers (A&A)

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