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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

Chris Engelbrecht

University of Johannesburg

South Africa

Nicholas Elias

CCRi

United States of America

Anna Hurst

Astronomical Society of the Pacific

United States of America

Eva Laplace

University of Amsterdam

Netherlands

Karina Sepúlveda

Colegio Abraham Maslow

Colombia

Rémy Joseph

Princeton University

United States of America

Tesla Jeltema

University of California, Santa Cruz

United States of America

Kyle Westfall

University of California Observatories

United States of America

Paul Goldsmith

California Institute of Technology

United States of America

Jasjeet Bagla

IISER Mohali

India

Lauren Miller

Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

United States of America

Alex Riley

Texas A&M University

United States of America

Lindsay Fuller

University of Texas at San Antonio

United States of America

Andreas Kelz

Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam

Germany

Franck Marchis

SETI Institute & Unistellar

United States of America

Johanna Teske

Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory

United States of America

Tom Kuiper

california Institute of Technology - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

United States of America

Christopher Willmer

Steward Observatory, University of Arizona

United States of America

Elena Fader

San Francisco State University

United States of America

Yvette Cendes

Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

United States of America

Dorota Koziel-Wierzbowska

Jagiellonian University

Poland

Suraj Poudel

Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso

Chile

John Blakeslee

NSF's NOIRLab

United States of America

Katja Weingrill

Leibnitz-Insitute for Astrophysics Potsdam

Germany

Andreas Zech

LUTH, Observatoire de Paris

France

Geoffrey Mathews

Foothill College

United States of America

Brian Bichang'a

University of Cape Town/ South African Astronomical Observatory

South Africa

Steen Hansen

Niels Bohr Institute

Denmark

Lee Hartmann

University of Michigan

United States of America

Gilles Orban de Xivry

University of Liège

Belgium

Javier Garcia

Caltech

United States of America

Fabrizio Vitali

National Institute for Astrophysics

Italy

David Coulter

University of California, Santa Cruz

United States of America

Gillen Brown

University of Michigan

United States of America

Matteo Brogi

University of Warwick

United Kingdom

Machaela Buczyna

Future scientist

United States of America

Zach Berta-Thompson

University of Colorado Boulder

United States of America

Patrick Treuthardt

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

United States of America

Emma Lam

Future scientist

United States of America

Shireen Gonzaga

STScI

United States of America

Jason E. Ybarra

Bridgewater College

United States of America

Joseph Barranco

San Francisco State University

United States of America

Eric Gawiser

Rutgers University

United States of America

Kevork Abazajian

University of California, Irvine

United States of America

Hailey Truong

Pleasant Grove High School

United States of America

Matthew Hogan

Texas Tech University

Costa Rica

Abbie Stevens

Michigan State U. and U. of Michigan

United States of America

Blanca Troughton

Sociedad Malagueña de Astronomía

Spain

Anna Kwa

Vulcan Inc

United States of America

Katy Proctor

ICRAR - University of Western Australia

Australia

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