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Open Letter

To Astronomy Departments, Institutions and Societies:
Adopt Sustanability as a Primary Goal.

We, astronomers, astrophysicists,
and global citizens…

  1. Recognize the urgency of the climate crisis and our impact on it.
  2. We also recognize that we have the power to change our current practices.
  3. We call on astronomical institutions worldwide to set an example for the field in mitigating our contribution to the climate crisis by:
  • Naming sustainability as a primary goal.
  • Putting in place specific sustainable practices to lower carbon emissions.
  • Clearly communicating these changes both to their own members and the general public.

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More than 2859 astronomers from 81 countries

recognize that there is no Planet B!

Scroll down to see a full list of signees and institutional endorsements.

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Open Letter Team Signatures

Jacob White

National Radio Astronomy Observatory

United States of America

Michelle Willebrands

Leiden Observatory

Netherlands

Volker Ossenkopf-Okada

Universität zu Köln

Germany

Manisha Shrestha

Liverpool John Moores University

United Kingdom

Adam Stevens

International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research / The University of Western Australia

Australia

Abhijeet Borkar

Astronomický Ústav AV ČR

Czech Republic

Victoria Grinberg

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

Germany

Toby Brown

National Research Council

Canada

Violette Impellizzeri

Leiden Observatory

Netherlands

Leo Burtscher

Leiden Observatory

Netherlands

Knud Jahnke

Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

Germany

Faustine Cantalloube

Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille

France

Gina Maffey

The Wildeor Foundation

Netherlands

Adrienne Cool

San Francisco State University

United States of America

Wendy Crumrine

University of Southern California

United States of America

Hannah Dalgleish

University of Namibia

United Kingdom

Sarah Deveny

Texas Tech University

United States of America

Debra Fischer

Yale University

United States of America

Gabriele Betancourt-Martinez

Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie

France

Abigail Frost

KU Leuven

Belgium

Tobias Beuchert

European Southern Observatory

Germany

Benjamin Gompertz

University of Birmingham

United Kingdom

Additional Siguatures

Nuria Álvarez Crespo

esa

Spain

Francois Boulanger

LPENS

France

Gianluca Giavitto

DESY

Germany

Tayyaba Zafar

Macquarie University

Australia

JULES MARTIN

ISAE-Supaero

France

Volker Perdelwitz

Ariel University

Israel

Joel Pfeffer

University of Western Australia

Australia

William Schuster

Instituto de Astronomia, UNAM

Mexico

Enrica Bellocchi

Centro de Astrobiología/ INTA

Spain

Antonis Georgakakis

National Observatoru of Athens

Greece

Catherine Boisson

Observatoire de Paris

France

Andreas Brunthaler

Max-Planck-Institute for Radioastronomy

Germany

Chris Aikman

NRC Canada (retired)

Canada

Till Sawala

University of Helsinki

Finland

Nancy Julianna Tovolahy

University of Antananarivo (Astrophysics and Astronomy)

Madagascar

Per Bjerkeli

Chalmers University of Technology

Sweden

Olivier Beltramo-Martin

Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille

France

Hannah Middleton

University of Melbourne

Australia

Matthew Taylor

HAA-Victoria

Canada

Jerome Rodriguez

Laboratoire AIM

France

Mitchell Dixon

Swinburne University of Technology

Australia

Sebastian Diebold

University of Tübingen

Germany

Daniel Sablowski

Leibniz Institut for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP)

Germany

Jose Miguel Gonzalez-Perez

Andøya Space Education

Norway

Ana Larson

University of Washington

United States of America

Anke van Dyk

South African Astronomical Observatory/ University of Cape Town

South Africa

Jeffrey Newman

University of Pittsburgh

United States of America

Stuart Wyithe

University of Melbourne

Australia

Michael Lindqvist

Chalmers

Sweden

Soheila Abdollahi

IRAP/CNRS

France

Frederick Chromey

Vassar College

United States of America

Sarah Martell

University of New South Wales

Australia

Pablo Arrabal Haro

NSF's NOIRLab

United States of America

Bhavesh Rajpoot

Fergusson College

India

Roberta Paladini

California Institute of Technology

United States of America

gordon walker

ubcg

Canada

Jayant Murthy

Indian Institute of Astrophysics

India

Jonathan Freundlich

Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg

France

Anowar Shajib

University of Chicago

United States of America

Monyke Hellen dos Santos Fonseca

UFRJ

Brazil

Elizabeth Mahony

CSIRO

Australia

Kurt Riegel

Johns Hopkins University

United States of America

Michael Richer

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Mexico

Arunav Kundu

Eureka Scientific

United States of America

Mathieu Clerte

University of Southern Queensland

Australia

Gerhardt Meurer

ICRAR / U. Western Australia

Australia

Brent Groves

International centre for Radio Astronomy Research - UWA

Australia

Joseph Schmitt

Department of Energy

United States of America

Duncan Forbes

Swinburne University

Australia

Patrick McCarthy

National Optical Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory

United States of America

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