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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

Zafar Rustamkulov

Johns Hopkins University

United States of America

Jacopo Soldateschi

Università degli Studi di Firenze

Italy

Pablo Santos-Sanz

Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC)

Spain

Aarran Shaw

University of Nevada, Reno

United States of America

Rundsthen Nader

Observatório do Valongo/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Brazil

Jorge Rivero González

JIVE

Netherlands

Rui Azevedo

Institutode Astrofísica

Portugal

Hailey Moore

Michigan State University

United States of America

Tae-Sun Kim

Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison

United States of America

Felix Mackebrandt

Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research

Germany

Sam Ponnada

Caltech

United States of America

Thankful Cromartie

Cornell University

United States of America

Montserrat Villar Martin

Centro de Astrobiologia (CSIC-INTA)

Spain

Ngoc Truong

Cornell University

United States of America

Paula Coelho

Universidade de Sao Paulo

Brazil

Felipe Olivares E.

Instituto de Astronomía y Ciencias Planetarias, Universidad de Atacama

Chile

Lucas Volpe

Universidade de São Paulo (USP)

Brazil

Bertil Dorch

SDU

Denmark

Torsten Bringmann

University of Oslo

Norway

Erick Aguirre

San Diego State University

United States of America

Helga Denes

ASTRON, Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy

Netherlands

Pablo Martín-Ramiro

Instituto de Física Teórica IFT-UAM/CSIC

Spain

ELVIRA COVINO

INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte

Italy

Joey Neilsen

Villanova University

United States of America

Ryan Rubenzahl

Caltech

United States of America

Spencer Raines

Cal Poly Pomona

United States of America

Sylvia Zhu

DESY

Germany

Christopher O'Connor

Cornell University

United States of America

Sarah Blunt

Caltech

United States of America

Javier Arenas Rencoret

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso

Chile

Giaky Nguyen

San Diego State University

United States of America

Thomas Hughes

Universidad de Valparaiso

Chile

Sierra Solter

AstroPlane

United States of America

Natalia Lucía Oliveros Gómez

Universidad Industrial de Santander

Colombia

Dara Storer

University of Washington

United States of America

Tyrone Woods

Herzberg Institute

Canada

Melania Del Santo

INAF/IASF Palermo

Italy

Paul Green

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

United States of America

Nathan Deg

Queen's University/CIRADA

Canada

Ivan Lacerna

Universidad de Atacama

Chile

Adam Langeveld

University of Cambridge

United Kingdom

César Enrique García Dabó

European Southern Observatory

Spain

Catie Ball

Cornell University

United States of America

Angela Berti

University of Utah

United States of America

Leticia Ferrero

Observatorio Astronómico de Córdoba - UNC

Argentina

Eric Bell

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

United States of America

Julien Girard

Université de Paris

France

Mario Suerquia

Universidad de Valparaíso

Chile

Ilana MacDonald

University of Toronto

Canada

Steven Kilston

Interstellar Consultants

United States of America

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