Each year, with support of ITRI, Japan, GPIW brings a delegation of spiritual leaders to the UN Climate Summits. This year in Katowice, Poland at COP24, political leaders met to finalize the ways in which countries will measure and report the carbon reductions to which they committed in the Paris Agreement. While it is necessary to address this outer picture, it is also vital to understand the spiritual dimension of this crisis — the root causes that have led to such environmental degradation.
This year in Poland our delegation spoke on shifting the dominant cultural narrative from a commodified world and anthropocentric view to a more connected, lived and felt relationship with Nature and Mother Earth.