Draw the Line: Global Movements Call for Action this September
Global Days of Action in September 2025
[GLOBAL] A powerful wave of global actions are set to take place this September as movements across the world unite in historic global days of action. Under the banner Draw the Line, communities will mobilize in towns and cities to draw the line against injustice, pollution, and violence, and for a just transition and a future built on renewable energy, fairness, and peace.
The call has become a global rallying cry supported by workers, youth, indigenous groups, and social movements. In a world marked by escalating climate disasters, rising authoritarianism, and deepening inequality, the message is clear: we must draw the line for people and the planet.
Draw the Line is a global action (15-28 September) with widespread mobilizations large and small peaking over the weekend of September 19–21, 2025. The call to action to Draw the Line: Rights, Jobs and Justice, is being co-convened by a network of global climate organizations including 350.org, CAN-International, APMDD and War on Want, together with other local, regional and global movements across the world.
This announcement comes at the same time as a major climate address by the UN Secretary-General António Guterres in New York, where he declared the shift to renewable energy is already happening and emphasized the economic, social, and security benefits of a just transition away from fossil fuels.
Participants in Draw the Line are planning thousands of actions across continents, from red and green lines to long marches, strikes, festivals, community gatherings, and cultural events. Mass ‘line’ formations, symbolic boundary markings, and bold artistic interventions will demand just transitions, climate finance for the Global South, and fossil fuel phase-outs, among other demands. Events will include mobilizations in Johannesburg, New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Karachi, Lahore, Nairobi, Cotonou, Ottawa, New York City, London, Paris, Berlin, Suva, Melbourne, Jakarta, Manila, Tokyo, Dhaka, and Belem.
The September mobilization comes just six weeks before world leaders gather in Brazil for COP30. Movements will call for a better world for ourselves, our children and our communities. A world with renewable, affordable energy for everyone. A world where we can speak up for our rights, where people and nature are safe, and where big polluters help pay to fix the climate crisis.
Our future belongs to us, not to polluters and billionaires. This is our line to draw.
Our demands include:
- Change the system through an equitable and just transition: through centering workers and communities
- Power Up Renewables, Shut Down Polluters
- Fund the Future, not the Crisis
- Reclaim Democracy
- Defend Human Rights, Freedom, and Peace
- Restore Our Relationship with the Earth
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Anne Jellema, Executive Director of 350.org, said:
“This mobilisation is about power, people power. The power to reject the lies of fossil fuel billionaires and remake our world for the many, not the few. We are drawing the line, because when governments fail to act, we rise. When polluters and profiteers try to divide us, we unite. We have the answers to this crisis, and we are calling on world leaders to listen, act, and follow the will of the people, not the whims of autocrats and billionaires. It’s our future, and it is for us to decide what it looks like.”
Lidy Nacpil, Coordinator, Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) said:
“We are drawing the line against deceptive tactics led by rich nations and big corporations to perpetuate fossil fuel dominance and delay the equitable just transition to a fossil free and healthy planet. We demand a complete coal phase out in Asia by 2035 and a rapid and just energy transition out of fossil fuels and to 100% renewable energy before 2050. We demand the full delivery of climate finance obligations of the Global North to the Global South for urgent climate action including Just Transition! This is a crucial part of their reparations for historical and continuing harm to our people.”
Tasneem Essop, Executive Director, Climate Action Network International said:
We are living through immensely challenging times right now: increasing injustices, human rights violations, wars, conflict and genocide, devastating climate impacts, rising cost of living and more. A global movement of movements is rising up to respond to the moment with the launch of the ‘Draw the Line’ Global Week of Action. Youth and women, workers and communities, young and old, across our ravaged planet are drawing the line against those fighting to keep us locked in a world of pollution, exploitation, wars and injustice. We are saying enough is enough and call for a Just Transition that puts people at the centre and serves the needs and interests of the masses of people who are suffering. As laid out by the UN Secretary General today, the energy transition is here and it is unstoppable, but it has to be just, fair, inclusive and fast. Our united actions across the globe in September will be our call for a just future.
Tyrone Scott, Senior Movement Building & Activism Officer, War on Want said:
In the UK, we’re joining movements worldwide and are drawing the line against inequality, climate breakdown, and the billionaires fuelling our global crises. On 20 September, thousands of us, backed by over 60 organisations, will march through the streets of London to demand justice. We’re part of a global movement rising together to say: enough is enough. From debt and poverty to fossil fuel tyranny, we are uniting across borders to resist more destruction and reclaim our future. This is a moment of reckoning. We are drawing the line for justice, for life, for the planet. Ordinary people didn’t cause this crisis, billionaires and corporations did. Now it’s time to make them pay to fix it.
Notes to Editors
The call to action to Draw the Line is being co-convened by a network of global climate organisations 350.org, CAN-International, APMDD and War on Want. Draw the Line is a global action (15-28 September) with widespread mobilizations large and small peaking over the weekend of September 19–21, 2025.
Media Contacts
350.org: global.comms@350.org / +44 (0) 7770881503 (WhatsApp/Signal)
CAN-I: media@climatenetwork.org / +353 83 873 3201 (WhatsApp/Signal)
War on Want: [email protected]
APMDD: [email protected]