RESOLUTIONS

Celle Declaration (1999)

Resolution of the Citizens' Action Committees against Wind Turbines in Germany
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Darmstadt Manifesto on the Exploitation of Wind Energy in Germany (1998)

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The Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship

The past millennium brought unprecedented improvements in human health, nutrition, and life expectancy, especially among those most blessed by political and economic liberty and advances in science and technology. At the dawn of a new millennium, the opportunity exists to build on these advances and to extend them to more of the earth's people.
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The Leipzig Declaration on Global Climate Change (1995/97)

As independent scientists concerned with atmospheric and climate problems, we - along with many of our fellow citizens -- are apprehensive about emission targets and timetables adopted at the Climate Conference held in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997.

This gathering of politicians from some 160 signatory nations aims to impose on citizens of the industrialized nations, - but not on others - a system of global environmental regulations that include quotas and punitive taxes on energy fuels to force substantial cuts in energy use within 10 years, with further cuts to follow. Stabilizing atmospheric carbon dioxide - the announced goal of the Climate Treaty - would require that fuel use be cut by as much as 60 to 80 percent - worldwide!
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The Heidelberg Appeal (1992)

We want to make our full contribution to the preservation of our common heritage, the Earth.

We are, however, worried at the dawn of the twenty-first century, at the emergence of an irrational ideology which is opposed to scientific and industrial progress and impedes economic and social development.

We contend that a Natural State, sometimes idealized by movements with a tendency to look toward the past, does not exist and has probably never existed since man's first appearance in the biosphere, insofar as humanity has always progressed by increasingly harnessing Nature to its needs and not the reverse. We full subscribe to the objectives of a scientific ecology for a universe whose resources must be taken stock of, monitored and preserved.
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