THE KYOTO DECLARATION - November 1993

1. To urge universities of the IAU to seek, establish and disseminate a clearer understanding of sustainable development - development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the .needs of future generations - and encourage more appropriate sustainable development principles and practices at the local, national and global levels, In ways consistent with their missions.
   
2. To utilize resources of the university to encourage a better understanding on the part of governments and the public at large of the inter-related physical, biological and social dangers facing the planet Earth, and to recognize the significant Interdependence and international dimensions of sustainable development.
   
3. To emphasize the ethical obligation of the present generation to overcome those practices of resource utilization and those widespread disparities which lie at the root of environmental unsustainability.
   
4. To enhance the capacity of the university to teach and undertake research and action in society in sustainable development principles, to increase environmental literacy, and to enhance the understanding of environmental ethics within the university and with the public at large.
   
5. To co-operate with one another and with all segments of society in the pursuit of practical and policy measures to achieve sustainable development and thereby safeguard the interests of future generations.
   
6. To encourage universities to review their own operations to reflect best sustainable development practices.
   
7. To request the IAU Council urgently to consider and Implement the ways and means to give life to this declaration in the mission of each of its members and through the common enterprise of the IAU.
   
   
8. This declaration embodies the language and substance of both the Halifax Declaration and the Swansea Declaration.