This year, our team worked harder than ever, securing tremendous accomplishments.
As we prepare to start a new chapter in 2026, I wanted to take a moment to reflect back on 2025.
This year, our team worked harder than ever, securing tremendous accomplishments:
- Fighting Fascism: We began this year counting down the days to a Conservative Majority government, with pollsters predicting a Poilievre victory with 98% certainty. In response, we used every tool at our disposal to prevent Poilievre from becoming Prime Minister.
- Building Organizing Power: This year, we skilled up and trained over 3,000 climate justice activists through over 50 events. From distributed local teach-ins to online workshops to an immersive 3-day training, we invested heavily in collective learning, skill-sharing, and capacity building to help grow and deepen our movement for climate justice.
- Mobilizing Across Movements: The 350 Canada team worked hard to mobilize more than 22,000 people for 70+ local actions across the country for the Draw the Line Day of Action on September 20th. This historic mobilization brought together over 350 grassroots groups and organizations from across the country to send a united cross-movement message for people, peace, and the planet.
But I won’t sugar coat it. This year also held its fair share of challenges:
- Carney’s attack on climate policies: Every policy we’ve fought for over the last decade is on the chopping block: from clean electricity regulations to the pollution cap on Big Oil to anti-greenwashing rules. This is a huge blow to our movement and a gift to the fossil fuel sector.
- Devastating fossil fuel expansion: Canadian politicians at every level of government are using Trump’s tariffs and aggression as an excuse to advance destructive mega projects, including new pipelines and LNG facilities that don’t have Indigenous consent. Not only is this devastating for our climate, it’s also locking us into the volatile boom-and-bust cycle of the dead-end oil economy.
These are huge setbacks –– but we’ve been here before.
We know that when politicians team up with Big Oil to wage a war on our future, people rise up to fight back. And that’s our plan.
In 2026, we have big plans for the long road ahead:
- Keeping fossil fuels in the ground: Fighting tar sands pipelines that our movement defeated years ago is not where we were expecting to be in 2026, but here we are. The only silver lining is that we beat these projects once – and that means we can do it again. We are committed to supporting Indigenous land defenders on the front-lines and re-igniting the power of the anti-pipeline fight from the last decade to fight fossil fuel expansion at every opportunity. We can’t afford to go backwards.
- Fighting for climate justice solutions that protect people and the planet: We know that it’s not enough simply to stand in the way of destruction. We also have to paint a clear picture of the better world we want to build. That’s why we have big plans to launch the next stage of our People’s Power Grid campaign, focused on delivering affordable, clean, renewable energy to people across the country.
We’ve got our work cut out for us in 2026 and we can’t do it without you.
In the coming weeks, we will ask you to make some contributions to support our work. Our fundraising goal this month is ambitious. But then again, so are our plans and we are up against some powerful forces.
In the meantime, check out our blog post for three ways you can push back on Carney’s fossil fuel agenda this holiday season. You will hear from us again in January about all the ways that you can take action in the fight for a better future.
You will hear us in January about all the ways that you can take action in the fight for a better future.
With gratitude and resolve,
Atiya Jaffar
Canada Country Manager, 350.org
Photo Credit: Mike Graeme