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This newsletter is coming to you slightly later than usual because we’ve been deep in planning something big. But before I let you in on it, let me ask you three simple questions:
- Is life becoming increasingly expensive, like food and energy prices that won’t stop rising?
- Have you noticed that the planet’s getting hotter with floods, droughts, storms and heatwaves are hitting harder every year?
- Are you tired of governments failing to stop this all while a handful of people are getting richer and richer somehow?
Basically, have you had enough? Well, so have we.
Even the world’s highest court, the International Court of Justice, gets it and has now made it clear: every country has a legal duty to act right away to preserve our future.
And which is why, in less than two months, we’re coming together across the globe to Draw the Line:
- Against big companies who keep wrecking our land, air, and water
- For a fair, safe, and liveable world for all of us
From 19 to 21 September, ordinary people like us everywhere will take to the streets and take action. From Johannesburg, New Delhi, and Jakarta to New York, London, and Paris – we’ll rally, walk out, create art, and come together in the streets to demand an end to the climate crisis, injustice and even violence.
When we show up together, we become impossible to ignore.
Sign up for updates and find events near you, or scroll to the end of this newsletter to organize one in your own city.
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Movement Updates Discover our latest actions demanding climate solutions & energy justice
A New Home for Climate Justice in Brazil
In Belém, Brazil, we proudly launched the People’s Embassy, a powerful space built by and for frontline communities like Indigenous Peoples, and other local groups. This house is as a hub to share knowledge, build alliances, and amplify voices in the fight for energy justice and against fossil fuels in the Amazon. On the same day, we also kicked-off our first Draw The Line action outside the site for this year’s UN climate talks, raising a melting globe to show the urgency of this moment and reminding the world: the answers already exist. The climate won’t wait. The future depends on us and we’re ready.
Drawing the Line in the Pacific
Just days after Belém, our Pacific Climate Warriors joined in the fight for climate justice straight to the steps of power: Australia’s Parliament House in Canberra. With faith groups, community leaders, and allies like the Uniting Church and Climate Action Network Australia, we called on the Albanese government to back a real, science-based climate plan for 2035 that keeps warming under 1.5°C. We also announced Draw the Line in the Pacific through a powerful statement to the Government.
From the Pacific to Brazil, our movements are mobilizing, organizing, and demanding a future we all deserve.
Reimagining Asia’s energy future
Across Asia deadly heatwaves, droughts, and storms are disrupting lives and livelihoods. Yet governments keep pouring public money into oil and gas, locking people into deeper hardship. So we’ve launched REImagine: a people-powered campaign to unite communities across Asia and demand a different future. One where energy is clean, affordable, and owned by the people, not polluters. From Indonesia to the Philippines to Bangladesh, we’re turning hope into action. Through storytelling, community organizing, and challenging fossil fuel finance, we’re showing leaders what real solutions look like: thriving communities and a livable planet for all.
A Death Warrant for Olive Groves in Türkiye
In other news, the Turkish Parliament recently passed a dangerous new law allowing mining in olive groves. This law violates Article 20 of the Olive Law, which bans dusty, polluting facilities near olive trees. Already, 45,000 trees near Akbelen Forest in southwest Türkiye are buried in mining dust, struggling to survive. Akbelen is a 740-hectare woodland and vital source of surface and groundwater. It supports subsistence farming, centuries-old olive groves, and local life. We’re fighting back through our campaign and rallies in Istanbul and Ankara, telling the government to not sacrifice Türkiye’s most valuable product, a source of life for many, to mine dust.
Climate Jargon Unpack the terms & concepts being used by climate activists & experts
This World is Ours
The rallying cry against a system that puts profit over people and the planet.
Draw the Line is part of a powerful wave of global events called This World is Ours, running worldwide from June to November 2025.
Why? Because All over the world, people are fighting for survival against war, climate collapse, crushing debt, inequality, and systems designed to keep power in the hands of a few. In Palestine, Sudan, and beyond, people face genocide. In so many places, dissent is criminalized, and communities are silenced. The richest 10% cause nearly half of global emissions, while billions, especially in the Global South, suffer the fallout.
What connects all of this? A global economic system built on extraction, exploitation, and colonial roots.
System change is urgent and will be inevitable when we refuse to accept business as usual. So we’re organizing together under the declaration This World is Ours. Because the world belongs to the many, not the wealthy few.
Community Spotlight Be inspired by stories & interviews of real people who are fighting for a just energy transition
REImagine Asia: A small dam with a big impact
In a small farming village in Kulon Progo, on the island of Java in Indonesia, something powerful began in 2012, though not everyone believed in it at first. When the government first introduced a micro-hydro power plant, many in the community were hesitant. Would it affect the water flowing to their rice fields? Could it really work?
But through regular meetings and patient organizing, trust grew. Eventually, the government handed the plant’s operations over to the village’s youth. These youth now manage the system, install devices in homes, and handle repairs.
Today, 50 households are connected, and electricity that once cost $43 a month now costs less than $1. It’s proof that when energy is in the people’s hands, real change is possible.
Read more stories of hope in Asia here.
Renewable Rundown Get informed on big numbers, key facts and important news
Six BIG Reasons
Why the fossil fuel age is failing and we are in the dawn of a new energy era.
The UN has just released a report which proves that the shift to renewables is happening faster, smarter, and more fairly than ever before. And here’s why:
- Renewables are now the cheapest option: Solar and wind prices have plummeted. In 2024, 91% of new renewables were cheaper than the lowest-cost fossil fuel alternative.
- Growth is happening at record pace: Last year alone, the world added 585 GW of clean energy, the fastest jump in history.
- More money is flowing to clean power: For every $1 invested in fossil fuels, $2 went to renewables. Investors know where the future is.
- It’s powering jobs and economies: The clean energy boom is creating millions of jobs and driving growth, especially in countries investing early and ambitiously.
- Emissions and economic growth are starting to be separate: Some countries are growing their economies while cutting carbon, proof that climate action doesn’t mean sacrificing prosperity.
- Just transition support is growing: More global partnerships are helping vulnerable countries get money and technology for a fair, people-first energy transition.
Watch this video to dig deeper.
Your Power Support us in demanding real climate action
A few days ago, the Brazilian Congress passed a law to fast-track fossil fuel projects in the Amazon, ignoring the strong opposition from Indigenous Peoples and traditional communities.
But Brazil’s President Lula can still veto it.
He’s pledged to protect the climate, and now’s the time to hold him to it. We’ve sent him a message online. Can you help by tagging him in our posts? Just click the button to comment or repost.
Energize Build your skills to tackle the climate crisis and widen our movement
In September, as movements around the world will rise together, this is your moment to rise too. To channel the rage, the grief, the hope and turn it into action. Join us. Organize. Speak out. Demand better. Host an event where you are. Rally your community. Let’s make 2025 the turning point the world needs!