For Earth Day 2024, EGU has once again joined our voices with our sibling organisations and other geoscience societies around the world, to reaffirm our commitment to promoting the conscientious applications of science to help us find solutions to create a just and sustainable future for humanity and the planet.

Read the full joint statement below.

As we celebrate Earth Day, our geoscience communities will continue to promote the conscientious applications of science and find innovative solutions that support sustainable human activities, including in our own diverse work and across all sectors of society.

The Global Earth Day 2024 theme, “Planet versus Plastics,” reminds us that the products we use and the actions we take have significant impacts on the interconnected systems that make up our planet. Geoscience provides information that can guide our decisions in ways that support responsible, deliberate, and more sustainable uses of plastics.

Signatories (in alphabetical order):

• African Geophysical Society
• American Geosciences Institute (AGI)
• American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)
• Canadian Geophysical Union
• Dachverband der Geowissenschaften (DVGeo)
• Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft (DGG)
• European Association of Geochemistry
• European Geosciences Union (EGU)
• Federation of Indian Geoscience Associations (FIGA)
• Geological Society of America (GSA)
• Geochemical Society
• Indian Geophysical Union
• International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG)
• International Geological Sciences
• Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU)
• Mexican Geophysical Union
• Society of Economic Geologists