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Gianluca Grimalda is an Italian researcher who has worked for the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) for ten years, but yesterday he was notified of his dismissal.The reason?Having acted consistently with the results of research linking air travel to CO2 emissions and therefore to global warming.To return from Papua New Guinea - where he was studying the impact of climate change on the local population - Grimalda refused to take the plane, choosing to return the same way he left:traveling 22 thousand km on board ships, ferries, trains and coaches, a choice thanks to which he would have saved three tons of carbon emissions.But the German Institute ordered him to return by plane, a request to which Grimalda reiterated his refusal together with his willingness to give up his salary for the travel period, while continuing to work remotely while traveling.All useless:the IfW notified him of his dismissal. Grimalda learned of the possibility of being fired while on the island of Boug...