Global Fight for a Fossil Free Future
From Belém to Antalya, peoples’ movements are rising up to end dirty energy and embark on a global just transition to a fossil-free future.
Our world is at a critical juncture, as our people and communities grapple with deepening crises: climate and ecological breakdown, escalating war and militarization, rising food and energy prices. We have a window of opportunity to secure a safe and sustainable future–free from the tyranny of fossil fuel interests, with decent and dignified work for all–but that window is rapidly closing. Now more than ever, collective action is needed to achieve our vision of a just and equitable fossil-free world.
This September, governments will gather in New York for the 81st UN General Assembly (UNGA 81), four months after adopting a resolution affirming the ICJ AO on states’ obligations to prevent climate harm and pay reparations. This is a vital opportunity to demand that governments enforce the ICJ AO, dismantle the fossil fuel system, achieve a global just transition, and deliver full reparations to affected countries and communities, including Indigenous Peoples and Afro-Descendants.
From September 14 to 20, civil society and people’s movements will mobilize in Asia, Africa, Europe, North and Latin America, as part of an arc of globally coordinated mobilizations during key moments, including the IMF-WB Annual Meetings, COP31, and the G20 Summit. Together, we can build the power to reclaim our world from those who seek only to extract its wealth and profit at the expense of our people and communities.
We urge movements, organizations, and communities to hold and/or join activities and actions from September 14 to 20.
This World is Ours! Resist, Reclaim, Rise up for System Change!
Amplify and weave the calls and demands of different movements and sectors across the world into a coherent narrative of struggle and unity
Raise and sustain public pressure on governments, banks, corporations, and other institutions during the UN General Assembly in New York and in the lead up to the COP31 climate negotiations
Strengthen and expand national, regional, and international climate justice movements
Mobilize public and digital pressure using the #TakeThemToCourt framework to pressure governments to align national policies with the ICJ’s binding 1.5C baseline and prepare the ground for litigation against Global North states.
The Global Week of Action will take place from September 14 to 20, the Major mobilizations across Asia will take place on the 19th and 20th.
Our 10 Demands for a Fossil-Free Future:
1. No new fossil fuels.
We demand an immediate end to fossil fuel expansion. No new approvals, licenses, permits, infrastructure, exports, or extensions for the fossil fuel industry. No new finance–public or private–for coal, oil, and gas. Halt Big Tech’s buildout of new fossil-fueled and nuclear-powered data centers.
2. A rapid, just, equitable phaseout
of all existing fossil fuel infrastructure, aligned with the goals of keeping temperature rise below 1.5C and reaching global real zero emissions by 2050. Phaseout timelines must differ according to the principles of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities and Equity, with the Global North phasing out first and fastest.
3. A direct transition to 100% renewable energy for all.
We demand a direct and just transition to 100% renewable energy, with sufficient, affordable, and reliable access for all. Prioritize publicly and community-owned distributed energy systems. Protect the rights of Indigenous Peoples, Afro-Descendants, and affected communities, including the right to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent.
4. Stop greenwashing and false solutions.
We demand an end to the promotion and financing of false solutions, such as carbon markets and offsets, carbon capture and storage, ammonia co-firing, and geoengineering. Stop promoting false “clean energy”, including nuclear power, destructive hydropower, and large-scale biofuels. No to gas as a transition fuel. Ban high-carbon advertising for luxury products that are exacerbating the climate crisis, such as fossil tourism and energy-intensive cars.
5. Deliver climate finance to the Global South
Global North governments must deliver trillions in public, predictable, non-debt-creating, new and additional climate finance to the Global South. Enact permanent, structural global and national tax justice measures, such as wealth and windfall profit taxes, to help finance the transition. Reduce military spending and redirect to climate action and justice. End fossil fuel subsidies. Cancel illegitimate debts from fossil fuels.
6. Hold polluters accountable.
End fossil fuel impunity and enforce the ICJ AO. Make rich polluters pay. Ensure that coal, oil, and gas corporations deliver full reparations for climate loss and damage, as well as for local rehabilitation, remediation, and transition. End Investor-State Dispute Settlement and protect governments’ right to phase out fossil fuels. Ban fossil fuel lobbyists and other polluting industries’ delegates from climate conferences.
7. End war and genocide.
End wars of aggression, occupation, and militarization that sustain fossil fuel dependence. Stop Israel bonds and divest from war and military spending that divert public resources from climate action. Halt fossil fuel extraction in territories under colonial occupation and cease fossil fuel transfers that enable genocide, war crimes, and illegal occupation.
8. Achieve a comprehensive just transition
that recognizes the North’s historical responsibility, ensures decent and dignified work for all, ends extractivism, and advances gender equality in all dimensions of the transition. Operationalize the Belém-Antalya Mechanism to ensure participation by the most impacted peoples, enable the provision of climate finance, and promote just transition principles. Phase out fossil-fueled industrial agriculture and prioritize food sovereignty. Transition minerals governance must be grounded in ecological limits and the highest social, environmental, labor and gender standards, with strict no-go zones.
9. Adopt binding international treaties.
Create a legally binding international framework for an orderly and equitable phase-out of fossil fuels by establishing a mandate to begin negotiations of a global Fossil Fuel Treaty in the next year. Adopt a binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations to end corporate capture and impunity.
10. System change, not climate change.
SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLKIT
LET’S BUILD THE DRUMBEAT TOGETHER.
In the days leading up to the Global Days of Action, we’ll make our voices heard online to urge governments and inspire others to take action. This is our chance to shift the narrative, raise our collective demands, and show that a powerful global movement continues to rise.
USE OUR COMMON HASHTAGS!
To amplify our collective voice and unify our messages across platforms, please use the following hashtags. These will help us connect across themes, strengthen our reach, and build momentum. Please include our main unifying hashtags that bring all our demands together:
#FossilFreeFuture
#JustTransitionNow
GET THE MATERIALS YOU NEED!
To support your social media activities, click the links below to download and share key materials. Feel free to add your logo to the materials.
THIS WORLD IS OURS logo (core) GDRIVE
THIS WORLD IS OURS logo (reverse) GDRIVE
END FOSSIL FUELS logo GDRIVE
GFFFF logo horizontal GDRIVE
GFFFF logo vertical GDRIVE
You are also free to create your posters and visuals—whether for online use or street mobilizations—and reflect your local context, culture, and campaign creativity.
Click to view the complete digital toolkit here:
| Monday 14 Sept | Tuesday 15 Sept | Wed 16 Sept | Thurs 17 Sept | Friday 18 Sept | Saturday 19 Sept | Sunday 20 Sept |
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| Online Kick-Off Rally | Palestine and the Anatomy of Fossil Imperialism PICS Manifesto Launch Webinar (co-convened by PICS and CAN) 11.00 to 12h30 GMT | Finance & Economic Justice ActionAid Report on Debt Launch APMDD Webinar on Tax Justice | Feminist Day | Mobilisations across the Regions | ||