Announcing Faiths 4 Climate: A Global, Multi-Religious Action!

Hi Rev., Sign up to take part in Faiths 4 Climate Justice, a 17-18 October global, multi-religious climate action! As this year’s UN climate negotiations approach, most governments have failed to meet the Paris goals they set six years ago. Banks have even increased their financing for fossil fuel projects every year since the Paris Agreement. Then, at the recent G7 meeting, leaders of wealthy countries failed to commit to providing timely support for countries facing the greatest risk from climate change - despite pledging to do so years ago. This lack of leadership is unacceptable. It violates humanity’s deepest moral values. Sign up to take part in Faiths 4 Climate Justice. Our faiths call for nothing less than an immediate end to new fossil fuel projects, deforestation and related financing, a massive commitment to green jobs to reduce climate pollution and end poverty for millions, and reparations from wealthy countries responsible for most past emissions to equip vulnerable nations for a better future.   These commitments are what the world needs and what our faiths require. That’s why on 17-18 October, two weeks before governments are expected to increase their climate commitments at the UN climate talks, people of diverse religions will rise together to send a clear message to governments and major financial institutions: destroying the planet is against our religions.   Can we count on you? Sign up now to organize an action with Faiths 4 Climate Justice! We’ll work together in the coming months to make this a big, beautiful, faith-rooted action. And we’ll provide lots of resources to help you along the way. Here’s how Faiths 4 Climate Justice will work: Sunday, 17 October: Religious communities will hold a public action at their place of prayer calling for decision-makers to act. Together, we’ll take creative action such as unfurling banners on religious and spiritual buildings, posting our demands on doors of local, regional, or national governments, banks, and major investment houses, or ringing bells, sounding the shofar, calling the Azan, etc, as we did on 11 March. Monday, 18 October: On the morning of 18 October, wearing religious garb or t-shirts with catchy slogans or carrying religious signs, we’ll line up outside of local, regional, and national governments and finance institutions en masse to deliver our demands to officials. Either at the beginning or end of the action, religious people may choose to hold a meditation or pray-in. Rev., it’s past time for governments, banks, and investors to deliver. As grassroots people from diverse religions, we are ready to take action for a just and sustainable future. Together, we will show the world that people of faith are not going to stand idly by in the face of injustice. Please join us! In faith and solidarity, Rev. Fletcher & the GreenFaith International Network