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

Manisha Shrestha

Liverpool John Moores University

United Kingdom

Adam Stevens

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

Australia

Volker Ossenkopf-Okada

Universität zu Köln

Germany

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

Abhijeet Borkar

AstronomickĂ˝ Ăšstav AV ÄŚR

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

Additional Siguatures

Anishya Harshan

UNSW

Australia

Ji-Jia Tang

Australian National University

Australia

Shane Hengst

University of Southern Queensland

Australia

Holger Baumgardt

University of Queensland

Australia

Michelle Cluver

Swinburne University of Technology

Australia

Mark Durre

Swinburne University

Australia

Aditya Manuwal

International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR-UWA)

Australia

Gillian Altham

Australian National University

Australia

Anja Andersen

University of Copenhagen

Denmark

Tamas Gal

Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics

Germany

Christian Reichardt

The University of Melbourne

Australia

Steve Prabu

ICRAR

Australia

Silke Maes

KU Leuven

Belgium

Simon Campbell

Monash University

Australia

Katie Jameson

CSIRO

Australia

Teresa Slaven-Blair

University of Western Australia

Australia

Virginia Kilborn

Swinburne University of Technology

Australia

Matthew Colless

Australian National University

Australia

Chandra Murugeshan

CSIRO

Australia

Tristan Reynolds

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

Australia

Katherine Harborne

International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research

Australia

Cathryn Trott

ICRAR - Curtin University

Australia

Bradley Greig

University of Melbourne

Australia

Robert Dzudzar

Swinburne University of Technology

Australia

Anshu Gupta

Curtin University

Australia

Maeva Berchon

Monash University

Australia

Kelvin Getley

University of Southern Queensland

Australia

Nataliea Lowson

University of Southern Queensland

Australia

Shalmalee Kapse

Macquarie University

Australia

Christian Wolf

Australian National University

Australia

Bradley Carter

University of Southern Queensland

Australia

Philip Taylor

Australian National University

Australia

Lisa Kewley

ASTRO 3D / ANU

Australia

Benjamin Pope

University of Queensland

Australia

Sabine Bellstedt

ICRAR-UWA

Australia

Jake Clark

University of Southern Queensland

Australia

Allen Davis

Yale University

United States of America

Adam Watts

ICRAR - UWA

Australia

Laura Parker

McMaster University

Canada

Debatri Chattopadhyay

Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology

Australia

Lukas Neumann

Argelander-Institut fĂĽr Astronomie, Bonn University

Germany

Dr. Thor Tepper Garcia

University of Sydney

Australia

Rosa Wallace Everson

University of California, Santa Cruz

United States of America

Arthur Alencastro Puls

Australian National University

Australia

Andrej Prsa

Villanova University

United States of America

Glenn Kacprzak

Swinburne University of Technology

Australia

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

University of California, Santa Cruz

United States of America

Jae Yeon Mun

Australian National University

Korea, South

René Tronsgaard

Technical University of Denmark

Denmark

Johan Mazoyer

Observatoire de Paris

France

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