EMBARGOED 22 July 2025 Philippines Time: 12 pm GMT (UTC ) 4:00 AM
Global Days of Action 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 future built on clean energy, fairness, and peace
The call, first issued by Indigenous leaders from the Amazon and the Pacific, has become a global rallying cry. 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.
This announcement comes just hours before a major climate address by the UN Secretary-General António Guterres in New York, where he will declare the transition to renewable energy is now inevitable and emphasize the economic, social, and security benefits of a just shift 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 fossil fuel phase-outs, just transitions, and climate finance for the Global South. Hundreds of events are to take place, including flagship mobilisations in Johannesburg, 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 fast, fair, and funded fossil fuel phase-out
- Climate finance and debt cancellation for the Global South
- Taxing the super-rich to fund green jobs and public services
- Demilitarization and an end to war and genocide
- Democracy led by people, not polluters
- Agroecological food systems that restore our relationship with the Earth