About Climate Justice Fast
Climate Justice Fast! is an international hunger strike taking place from the 6th of November 2009 to call for strong, just action on the climate crisis.
Participants in the Climate Justice Fast will eat no food and will drink only water from the 6th of November onwards, throughout and potentially beyond the end of the UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen, which conclude on the 18th of December, where world leaders will be effectively tasked with deciding the fate of our planet at the 15th annual meeting of the UN's 'Framework Convention on Climate Change'.
To learn more about the people who are participating in Climate Justice Fast! click here.
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.
