Libraries4Future Principles
1. Libraries play an active role in climate protection
We regard climate change as the most urgent societal and political challenge of our time. To protect the climate, libraries must address the resulting obligations and become actively engaged in the debate as significant players.
2. Everyone can and must take action
We commit to making our actions climate-conscious and resource-efficient and call upon all employees in libraries to do the same. We prompt our superiors and encourage everyone active in practical library work, training, and research to incorporate awareness of responsible, ecological sustainability into their everyday work!
3. Libraries are multipliers
Libraries are places of education and information. We campaign to make knowledge and information about climate change and its consequences clearly visible. It is our task to face denial of climate change by providing facts, educational opportunities, as well as a platform for public discourse.
4. Libraries strengthen social cohesion
Climate action and environmental sustainability can only be successfully implemented worldwide if, in line with the UN’s 2030 Agenda, no one is left behind. With this in mind, we want to help ensure that libraries increasingly become places of democracy, where social debate is stimulated and social cohesion is strengthened—for a future worth living for all people worldwide. Equality and non-discrimination should be the guiding principles of social interaction in libraries.
5. politics is challenged
Together with “Fridays for Future”, we call upon holders of political office all over the world to commit to appropriate action to tackle the climate crisis.