SF2A Environmental Transition Commission: Chosen pieces from the survey 'French astronomy and astrophysics research activities in the face of the environmental crisis, from 2019 to 2024'

TL;DR

This paper presents selected findings from a 2019-2024 survey on French astronomy and astrophysics research activities' response to the environmental crisis, highlighting key discussions and preliminary results.

Contribution

It offers a curated overview of survey results and discussions on environmental challenges faced by French astronomy and astrophysics research from 2019 to 2024.

Findings

Survey initiated in 2019 and updated in 2024.

Preliminary results shared at SF2A conference 2025.

Full survey results to be published in late 2025.

Abstract

In 2025, the French Society for Astronomy \& Astrophysics (SF2A), gave the environmental transition commission the opportunity to share their considerations during a plenary session at the annual SF2A conference. This year, the presentation focused on some of the main results obtained from the survey entitled 'French astronomy and astrophysics research activities in the face of the environmental crisis, from 2019 to 2024'. The survey was initiated in 2019 by the group 'Environnement-Transition' (coordinated by P. Martin) at IRAP, whose results were presented during the SF2A annual conference 2019 in Nice. The survey was updated in 2024 by the CNRS INSU-AA prospective working group 'Climate and ecological challenge' (coordinated by S. Bontemp). The SF2A environmental transition commission took on the survey to the French institutes, sorted the answers and extracted the preliminary results. The full results will be published at the end of 2025 in the final CNRS INSU-AA 2024 prospective document. This publication presents a selection of pieces from the full survey, along with a few of the main discussions it triggers.