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title: The world takes to the streets ahead of Paris climate summit
date: 2015-11-25T14:39:53Z
modified: 2015-11-25T14:39:53Z
permalink: "https://350.org/press-release/the-world-takes-to-the-streets-ahead-of-paris-climate-summit/"
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categories:
  - Actions/Demonstrations
  - Global
  - Paris 2015
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WORLDWIDE — The weekend before the opening of the climate summit in Paris, hundreds of thousands of people are taking to the streets in over 2,000 events spread across 150 countries to demand that negotiating parties keep fossil fuels in the ground and finance a just transition to 100% renewable energy by 2050.

“While 2015 is on track to be the hottest year in recorded history, this weekend will be a further testament to the unprecedented surge in climate action we’ve seen in the last year and serves to pave the way for further escalation going into 2016. People everywhere are ready for the end of fossil fuels and the dawn of renewables,” said Hoda Baraka, Global Communications Manager for 350.org.

There will be huge marches, concerts, rallies, workshops, bike rides and film screenings spanning all continents. Highlighted events include:

- **Australians** will be among the earliest marches across the world, with many thousands gathering in capital cities across the country including **Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Darwin, Hobart and Perth**, as well as **Melbourne** and **Sydney**. The marches will be colourful, family friendly events, and will be attended by a diverse range of Australians, including firefighters, faith communities, unions and workers, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, Pacific Islanders, farmers, health professionals, business people, artists and musicians.

- Across **The Philippines**, over 20 events, marches, and rallies are planned. In **Manila**, 20,000 people are expected to converge in Quezon City as part of a broad march with groups representing climate-impacted communities, faith organization, youth, labor, anti-coal and renewable energy.

- In a remote corner of northern **Tanzania**, more than 1,000 Maasai will march for a global deal on renewable energy through the town of Loliondo, on the edge of the Serengeti National Park, where they’ve faced government land grabs and extreme droughts, severely impacting their livestock.

- Students are coming together in more than 60 distributed events across **China** including round table discussions, bike rides and screenings.

- A number of events will be taking place across the **Pacific Islands**. Climate marches are planned in **Fiji**, the **Marshall Island** and **Kiribati**, while in **Papua New Guinea** islanders will mobilise to send an urgent message to world leaders to transition to renewable energy to save their homes and humanity.

- In **Hong Kong**, **Taipei** and **Seoul** hundreds are taking to the streets to demand a just transition to 100% renewable energy. In **Vietnam** a big climate music festival is planned, bringing together more than 1500 youth. In **Japan**, the marches in Kyoto and Tokyo will feature a mass photo action where people will form one collective image.

- Across the **United States**, marches will take place across the country — from **Los Angeles** to **Austin**, to **Washington, DC** up to **New York City**, thousands will gather in creative, art-filled actions in the name of climate justice.

- Events are planned in **Egypt**’s two largest cities (Cairo and Alexandria) where thousands will be running to raise awareness on climate impacts and call for urgent climate action.

- The **divestment movement** will be out in force worldwide, joining marches in London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Melbourne, Wellington and more!

- More than 5,000 cyclists will be taking over the center of **Mexico City** with marches also planned in **Bogota,** Colombia, **Sâo Paulo**, Brazil and **Bolivia**.

- In **Kampala**, Uganda a huge march is planned to go through the city. The Pope is visiting Africa this week and in Kenya he will receive a letter asking the Vatican to divest emphasising the moral call to divest from fossil fuels and make a just transition towards a world powered by 100% renewable energy.

In Paris, where the government has prohibited the climate march from taking place due to security concerns in light of recent attacks in the city, people will join hands to form a human chain will now take place from Place de la République to Place de la Nation with participants carrying the placards, signs and artistic visuals initially developed for the march.

“While we’re restricted in Paris, we’ll make sure that our governments hear our call for climate justice loud and clear from all corners of the world,” added Baraka.

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Photos from the weekend can be found [here](https://www.flickr.com/photos/350org/sets/72157661452191892).

Videos from the weekend can be found [here](https://350.org/gcm-videos).