Ambassadors for Survival
As part of the Global Day of Fasting on December 17, as the climate talks in Copenhagen reach their climax, the following leaders, movers and shakers, and global figures in the movement for climate justice will be fasting - going without food for one day - in a demonstration of moral force and leadership.
They, along with thousands of citizens around the world, will be making this personal sacrifice in order to call for our global leaders to simply do what they know is morally right. All of the arguments have now been heard and are well now understood - the ethical choices, for the benefit of all humanity and future generations, are clear.
Bill McKibben
Bill McKibbenn, hailing from Vermont USA, is the author of The End of Nature, as well as a university professor and scholar-in-residence at Middlebury college. He is one of the founders of the 350.org movement, which created and led the largest ever day of citizen political action on climate change on October 24 this year, with over 5,000 events calling for strong climate action, in 181 countries - nearly every nation in the world.
Vandana Shiva
Born in India in 1952, Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental leader and thinker. Shiva has fought for changes in the practice and paradigms of agriculture and food. She has assisted grassroots organisations all over the world, and is a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalisation movement.
Kumi Naidoo
Dr. Kumi Naidoo is the Executive Director of Greenpeace International, and the chair of the Global Campaign for Climate Action, also known as the TckTckTck.org coalition. In 2005 he was one of the founders of GCAP - the Global Campaign Against Poverty - a coalition of partners in over 100 countries whose aim is to maintain pressure on leaders to fulfil their promises on aid, trade, debt, climate change and gender equality.
Born in South Africa, Kumi Naidoo became involved in the South African liberation struggle at the age of 15. He was deeply involved in neighbourhood organization, youth work in his community, the underground movement, and mass mobilizations against South Africa's apartheid regime. Kumi holds a D.Phil in Politics from Magdalen College, Oxford and has published and spoken widely on issues relating to civil society, education and resistance to apartheid. His current role as the head of the world's largest environmental organisation is symbolic of the necessary coming-together of social movements in order to solve the climate crisis.
Mary Robinson
Mary Robinson, the first woman President of Ireland (1990-1997) and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002), has spent most of her life as a human rights advocate.
Now based in New York, Mary Robinson is currently the President of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative. Its mission is to make human rights the compass which charts a course for globalization that is fair, just and benefits all.
Josette Sheeran
Josette Sheeran became the eleventh Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme in April 2007. As leader of WFP, Ms. Sheeran oversees the world's largest humanitarian agency, which each year gives food to an average of 90 million people in at least 80 of the world's poorest countries. WFP reaches out to hungry people who cannot help themselves, with a special emphasis on women and girls who suffer disproportionately from hunger and malnutrition. WFP aid recipients include victims of war and natural disasters, orphans and families affected by HIV/AIDS, and schoolchildren in poor communities.
Gilliane LeGallic and Fanny Heros
President and Programme Officer of the 'small is beautiful' organisation Alofa Tuvalo, Tuvalu
Uday Khemka
Indian businessman, philantrhopist and Vice Chairman of the SUN Group.Uday has taken an active role in building his family's diverse philanthropic activities. The mission of the Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation is to develop and promote institutions and initiatives that make a substantial impact on poverty, deprivation and disempowerment of the human and natural environment. The Foundation's sole international objective is to address environmental issues, particularly climate change mitigation. In 2006, it was a sponsor for the Iceland Climate Change Action Summit.
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Kathleen Rogers Kathleen Rogers, President of Earth Day Network, has worked more than 20 years as an environmental attorney and advocate, focusing on public policy, international law, litigation, and community development. Under Kathleen's leadership, Earth Day Network has taken the lead in defining the "new environmentalist" of the 21st century, transforming EDN into a dynamic team of year round activists that is reaching out to new constituencies, including young people and people of color, and integrating civic participation into each of our programs and activities. David Kroodsma Hopenhagen.org and Huffington Post Climate Ambassador: scientist, environmental educator, and worldwide bike traveler David Kroodsma. David has won a week-long trip to Copenhagen where he'll be meeting with everyone from Al Gore to the Mayor of Copenhagen, doing interviews, writing blog posts and and making videos which will appear on HuffPost Green, and representing the people of Hopenhagen -- those worldwide who are hopeful for a climate agreement -- at events and to the press. Naomi Klein Naomi Klein writes a regular column for The Nation and The Guardian that is syndicated internationally by The New York Times Syndicate. In 2004, her reporting from Iraq for Harper’s Magazine won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. Also in 2004, she co-produced The Take with director Avi Lewis, a feature documentary about Argentina’s occupied factories. The film was an Official Selection of the Venice Biennale and won the Best Documentary Jury Prize at the American Film Institute’s Film Festival in Los Angeles. |
The Entire Tuvaluan Delegation at COP15
Climate Justice Fast is honoured that the entire Tuvaluan negotiating team will be fasting in solidarity for 24 hours as part of the Global Day of Fasting.
Delegates from the following nations or negotiating groups have also signed on in support of 'Hunger for Survival, the global day of fasting:
- Indonesia
- india
- Samoa
- Fiji
- Kuwait
- St. Lucia
- St. Kitts & Neves
- Japan
- Philippines
- Kiribati
- Colombia
- Bhutan
- European Community (27 countries!)
- Lesotho
- Swaziland
- Belgium
- Zambia
- Egypt Indoesia
- UAE
- Jordan
- Morocco
- Thailand
