Fast and Feast for the Climate - December 2015

Since 2013 members of the LWF climate delegation and people of all walks of life from over 90 countries around the world have been performing one simple action:  fasting on the first of the month, every month for one day. By doing so, the hope has been to be in solidarity with the most vulnerable and to call on global leaders to reach a new and fair, binding and ambitious climate deal in Paris, which would lead to decarbonization by the middle of the century and build resilience among the most vulnerable communities who suffer the greatest effects of climate change.

The 21st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meets in Paris, France -- from 30 November until 11 December 2015. As this will be an important milestone in the political process about climate change, communities from all around the globe also will gather together to make their voices heard by fasting one last time on the evening of 30 November through lunchtime on 1 December. At dinner, communities will break the fast and feast to celebrate our unity and the solutions for a better future.

So why do we fast?

Fasting is a long-standing spiritual practice found in many religious traditions. As both individuals of faith and religious communities worldwide, we fast to underline the urgency of the negotiations on climate change.  We fast in many different places for many different reasons. We fast for climate justice.

Fasting for climate justice offers people of faith and religious communities an opportunity to address concerns for climate change.

It's a way to:

- express common faith, spiritual and ethical values

- urge world leaders to set the world on a path to completely phase out fossil fuel emissions and phase in 100 percent renewable energy by 2015, with sustainable energy access for all

- call on the leaders of those countries who are less vulerable to the climate crisis to take real steps to meet their commitments to the world's most climate vulnerable people

- re-think how both people of faith and religious communities can live their lives and re-commit themselves to a responsible and sustainable way of life                            

- commit ourselves for the care of creation and preserve this world for future generations

- inspire people worldwide to reconsider their own consumption patterns and -- in particular -- adopt a mindful, conscious relationship with food

What You Can Do: 

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