Thanks to your support and involvement, all around the world, 350.org has increased grassroots pressure on leaders to rise to the challenge of the climate crisis. We kept up the pressure on President Barack Obama regarding the Keystone XL pipeline, holding 45 bird-dogging actions and large rallies such as Reject & Protect. In California, Don’t Frack California was one of the largest fracking rallies in history with over 4,000 people surrounding the state capitol in Sacramento. With fossil fuel divestment, we are pressuring state governors in the U.S. to divest state pension funds, and we are urging Pope Francis to divest the Vatican’s holdings from fossil fuels. We are pressuring cities in Europe to divest and banks in Australia from giving loans for fossil fuel projects.

We’re actively shifting public opinion through our fossil fuel divestment campaign, which continues to grow faster than any previous divestment campaign in history. Its central purpose, to challenge the social license of the fossil fuel industry and to make clear that fossil fuels must stay underground, is becoming a mainstream demand. The campaign for divestment has led to institutions, local governments and individuals to pledge to divest over $50 billion USD in assets from the fossil fuel industry. We have been training activists on campuses and in institutions to scale up their divestment work.

We’re also seeing the young leaders we trained through our Global Power Shift (GPS) program in 2013 put their skills to the test. We helped these young activists organize 86 national power shift events in 31 countries where they trained and organized more young people across their own country. The GPS Philippines organizer was invited to meet with the country’s president, the group in Vanuatu played a crucial role in Cyclone Pam recovery, and many GPS participants planned People’s Climate March events in their countries. Many of these groups are now taking on divestment or pressuring leaders in advance of UN climate talks later this year.

Our fights against tar sands, fracking, and coal development are far from over. These iconic fights are reinforcing the narrative to leave carbon in the ground and challenging the premise that fossil fuel infrastructure projects can be built anywhere without massive grassroots opposition. We’ve been fighting dirty energy projects and supporting local efforts that meet the needs of affected people around the world. From pushing back on pipelines in the U.S. (most famously the Keystone XL), opposing fracking in Brazil, organizing divestment campaigns in Europe, to supporting the Pacific Climate Warrior’s coal blockade in Australia; our movement is truly global. With thousands of actions planned by local groups in 2015, we know this is a grassroots effort powered with your help.

At the end of the year, we welcomed KC Golden as our new board chair, and created a new role of Senior Advisor for Bill McKibben. KC is a Senior Policy Advisor at Climate Solutions in Seattle, Washington in the U.S. and brings decades of experience, as well as respect for 350.org’s unique ways of operating, to help shepherd 350.org to the next level in years to come.

Read on, and take a look at all the work we’ve done together in 2014. Without you, your passion, activism, commitment, and generous support, we couldn’t have had such an amazing year. We look forward to your continued partnership and support in combating climate change in 2015 and beyond.

Thank you so very much!