About Climate Justice Fast
Climate Justice Fast! is an international hunger strike to call for strong, just action on the climate crisis. It took place from the 6th of November 2009 until the conclusion of the failed Copenhagen climate talks on the 18th of December.
Participants in the Climate Justice Fast ate no food and drank only water, in advance of the 2009 UN 'Framework Convention on Climate Change' talks in Copenhagen (COP15), where world leaders were effectively tasked with deciding the fate of our planet. They failed to reach the scientifically and morally necessary deal, they disappointed billions of people around the world, and they denied their children's global generation the right to safety and security.
But at Copenhagen, civil society came together like never before. There was a global awakening, a realisation that if we are to achieve the sustainable future, we need to take leadership into our own hands, and bring the politicians to follow us, rather than pleading with them to lead. Despite the political failure of Copenhagen, the sustainable era is beginning, led by passionate citizens all over the world.
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Our call for justice:
We, the participants of Climate Justice Fast!, are undertaking our international
hunger strike in order to call upon world leaders – and all people, everywhere –
to act with courage and good faith for our common, global good, by implementing
the most rapid possible transition to stabilise atmospheric greenhouse gases
below 350ppm CO2-e, and by committing to deliver justice for the global poor
and future generations – who are the least responsible for causing
climate change, yet who suffer the most from its effects.
Climate Justice for the poor and for future generations can be delivered by
funding climate adaptation and mitigation activities in developing nations with
at least US$195 billion per year; by reducing and rejecting over-consumption,
wherever it exists, and by phasing out both deforestation and fossil fuels completely
- starting with the elimination of developed countries' fossil fuel subsidies, shifting them
wholly to renewable energy and international climate finance.
We urge all people, everywhere, to make a commitment to
join the movement for climate justice,
and to not to give up until we succeed in these demands being met.
