2025 has been a big year for 350.org, and for the climate movement. It’s the year we returned to what we do best: working in community, organising, training, and mobilising towards big global change.
In April, we came together to Renew Our Power, and trained hundreds of activists to power a fair and fast transition to renewable energy.
Hands-on workshop on solar energy during Renew Our Power, in Brazil, April 2025.
We deepened our relationship with Indigenous Peoples who are fighting to protect their fragile ecosystems, amplifying their messages to our Dear Ancestors and helping ensure their voice is heard in spaces like COP30.
Angela Kaxuyana reading her letter as part of the Dear Ancestors video project at Acampamento Terra Livre, in Brazil, April 2025.
In September, we co-organized a massive public demonstration in 85+ countries around the world; with over 200 thousand people coming out on the streets to Draw the Line: for life, for the people, and for the planet.
People’s Carnival and Fair in Nairobi, Kenya – one of the hundreds of Draw the Line actions around the world, September 2025.
In November, we held politicians’ feet to the fire and demanded a transition away from fossil fuels (TAFF) at the People’s COP30 in Brazil. We didn’t get the results we wanted, but we did secure agreements for a coalition of the willing to draw up a roadmap before COP31.
350-led action demanding ambition and a fossil fuels phase out at the Blue Zone at COP30, in Brazil, November 2025.
The path ahead is clear: we must keep up the pressure by focussing where the movement needs us most, whether it’s to tackle challenges or seize opportunities. And focus will be key – because we are operating under greater constraints than ever before.
Which brings me to the painful realities we confronted in 2025: even as we drew closer to irreversible climate tipping points, we saw governments and companies backtracking on their climate commitments, and institutional funding for the climate movement came under great pressure. Like many climate and environment groups that have had to lay people off this year, we had to make deep cuts to our staff and activities around the world. 350.org’s work will continue, but with a smaller team and a narrower focus. Working in a smaller, flatter structure, staff at 350.org will continue to support our strong network of affiliates and local groups worldwide, who remain vibrant forces for change at the state and city level.
Having served on the Executive Team for five years, I have had an unfiltered inside view of the organization, and the changes we’ve made, together.Mine is just one of many painful goodbyes we have had to make in the last few weeks, and I wanted to share what this means to me on a human level. I have tremendous faith in the smaller team that remains at 350.org, and know that they are well-positioned to deliver a redesigned strategy for the big change the world needs right now. But underneath that conviction is a whole host of other emotions too.
I am angry. Not for myself, nor just for 350.org, but for the whole climate movement being put under pressure like this, and for the planet that continues to burn while our leaders play the proverbial fiddle.
I am grieving. For every colleague who leaves the team, for all the work we’re having to pause, but most of all, for the impact we see on vulnerable communities as climate impacts worsen each year.
I am also full of love. For the folks who will continue our mission at 350.org, for the commitment demonstrated as we devised smart ways of adapting to our new reality (whether or not we play a part in delivering it), and the clarity with which our now-smaller team will fight to protect what we all love.
And I continue to hold hope. Despite the corrupt, fossil-fuelled system pushing hard on an extractive agenda, I remain hopeful that we will RESIST with even greater determination.
For 350.org, I hope for greater resilience. For the climate movement to succeed, I hope that philanthropic institutions are able to retain their own independence, follow a strong moral compass, and exercise ever-greater courage.
And I hope, more than ever, that we can find more brave individuals willing and able to support the fight for climate justice worldwide. Because it is only with a large, loyal community of individual supporters that we can build the financial resilience that allows organizations like 350.org to run bold, independent campaigns.
It takes a global community to protect the climate community… and very much vice-versa too.