Climate scientist 'could lose job' for refusing to fly

Berlin (AFP) Oct 4, 2023

A climate scientist on Wednesday said he was being threatened with the sack for refusing to fly back to Germany from a research trip in Papua New Guinea. Gianluca Grimalda, a senior researcher at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel), has spent six months investigating the social effects of climate change in the Pacific island country. Grimalda made most of the outward trip