2025, LSC, CRP, Lunar Policy for Peace, Safety, and Sustainability on the Moon

This paper is jointly submitted by the Open Lunar Foundation, a U.S. 501c3 and permanent observer to the Committee, and the Lunar Policy Platform Foundation (LPP), a Dutch non-profit and ad hoc observer to the 64th Session of the Legal Subcommittee.

Open Lunar Foundation, an independent non-profit organisation, is committed to safeguarding a peaceful, cooperative, and sustainable lunar future. Aligned with UNCOPUOS objectives, the Foundation translates open standards into concrete policy and infrastructure, combining governance design, legal scholarship, and advanced technology to develop shared lunar utilities. 

The vision of LPP is a prosperous, peaceful, and cooperative future on the Moon for the benefit of all humanity. The mission of LPP is to help create a conducive policy environment by connecting with all stakeholders to facilitate the collaborative setting of priorities, policies, and standards for peaceful, safe, and sustainable lunar activities. 

LPP’s distinctive feature is the creation of inclusive, holistic, and focused policy documents developed via an innovative, multi-layer, and stakeholder-driven consultative process. Every year, LPP conducts extensive, bilateral, in-depth interviews with a diverse group of organisations from all over the world to gather views, identify common ground and diverging points, and assess a practical way forward. All interviews are conducted under Chatham House rules designed to facilitate the participation of all interested actors.

All views collected during LPP’s consultations are then analysed by its expert team and transposed in initial drafts that are shared back with all participants for their feedback across multiple iterations. This process ensures that all documents developed by LPP are rooted in the views of all consulted stakeholders and representative of common ground between them.

All policy documents developed by LPP Foundation via its consultative process are published online in perpetual open access, and can be freely used by all interested parties.

After three years of groundbreaking work as an international initiative incubated by Open Lunar, in 2025 LPP established a global, non-profit, non-governmental, foundation registered in The Netherlands and officially called “Stichting Lunar Policy Platform”.

Open Lunar and LPP Foundation continue to collaborate for the development and implementation of a conducive policy environment to support international cooperation in the peaceful, safe, and sustainable exploration and use of the Moon for the benefit of all, including through LPP’s proposed Lunar Policy Decalogue.

Both Open Lunar and LPP recognise COPUOS as the leading multilateral body in charge of global space governance, and wish to support its crucial work for international cooperation in the peaceful exploration and use of outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, for the benefit of all. 

At the 64th session of the LSC, LPP has submitted an accreditation request as ad hoc observer to witness its important and timely discussions, provide a concise update on its activities in this paper, and understand from Member States how it can best support the crucial work of the Committee in the future, including through the potential submission of an application as permanent observer at the 68th Session of the Committee in June.