Earthrise Accord 

Earthrise Accord is an international climate justice organization headquartered in The Hague—the world’s legal capital—dedicated to exposing fossil fuel disinformation, advancing Energy Reparations through nuclear-powered infrastructure in extraction-impacted communities, and establishing ecocide and resource extraction as crimes against nature and humanity.

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The "Accord" in our name evokes the profound harmony captured in the iconic 1968 Earthrise photograph: a vision of Earth as sublime art, revealing our planet as a singular, shared home that transcends division and compels a unified global response to our environmental crisis.

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Apollo 8 astronaut William “Bill” Anders—father of Earthrise Accord’s founder and its initial benefactor—captured Earthrise, the first photograph to show our planet from the depths of space. Against the void, Earth appeared not as a patchwork of nations, but as a single, fragile vessel—finite, luminous, and shared by all. The image became an icon of the environmental movement and the symbolic foundation of Earthrise Accord.

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But Anders left a second legacy, too often forgotten: he was a nuclear engineer, former head of GE’s nuclear division, and the first Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He believed deeply in nuclear power’s potential to deliver clean, safe, and sovereign energy. That vision was sabotaged by a dual disinformation campaign: Big Oil and petro-states sowed climate denial on the right while spreading anti-nuclear fear on the left—derailing a transition that could have begun as early as the 1950s.

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Earthrise Accord's bilingual English-French name honors France as its model nuclear nation—a country whose steadfast commitment to nuclear power has ensured energy independence, dramatically reduced fossil fuel dependence, and prevented approximately 2 billion tons of CO₂ emissions since 1970. France's exemplary nuclear history also demonstrates nuclear power’s inherent safety and the practicality of responsibly managing its relatively small volume of waste.

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In alignment with the UN IPCC and the excellent documentary Critical by Greens for Nuclear Energy, Earthrise Accord sees nuclear power as an essential component of Earth’s survival in the face of climate change. There can be no timely transition without nuclear, because renewables alone are simply unable to replace the entirety of fossil fuel use. As France did in the 1970s, the world must fully embrace this safe, clean, and constant energy source and reject the lies perpetuated by fossil fuel interests. Accordingly, all energy reparations for the damage done by fossil fuels must be made with clean energy sources that can fully replace them—so that further extraction can be outlawed and recognized for what it is: ecocide and a crime against humanity—even, or especially, in places like Norway, which presents itself as climate-forward yet continues to extract vast quantities of crude.

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Founded in the Netherlands to anchor its mission within the international legal community, Earthrise Accord stands for what was once possible and still is: a just energy future rooted in truth, science, and repair. France has shown that nuclear power can decarbonize safely and independently of fossil fuels, while The Hague provides the global infrastructure needed to pursue legal accountability for crimes against the planet.

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At the heart of Earthrise Accord’s mission is Energy Reparations: a call to hold fossil fuel actors accountable for ecocidal harm and to redirect their profits toward clean energy infrastructure in the communities they’ve most damaged. Nuclear power—long misrepresented—is central to that effort. It remains the safest, most scalable tool for rapid decarbonization.

In June 2024, after Bill Anders died at age 90, his son, Eric, founded Earthrise Accord to carry forward both legacies: Earthrise, which awakened a planetary consciousness, and nuclear power, which—if not for decades of fossil-fueled lies—could have changed the course of the climate crisis.

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Earthrise Accord exists to ensure that Earth—our only home—remains not only habitable, but just and flourishing for generations to come.