SEPTEMBER 15 & 17 2023

UK ACTIONS

join us in the streets, or online using #EndFossilFuels #fastfairforever

This September, as world leaders discuss climate action at the United Nations in New York, people on every continent will join the largest-ever globally coordinated action to demand that governments end fossil fuels.

The climate crisis is escalating but so is the global movement for climate justice. We need all hands on deck to win this fight.

Action can take many forms. Already a Global Climate Strike is planned by Fridays for Future on September 15, and a March to End Fossil Fuels will be held in New York on September 17. This is a call for others globally to join us with your own creative actions, speakouts, art installations, marches, protests, strikes, occupations, forums, gatherings, civil disobedience or digital mobilisations. Join us.

Why Mobilise?

Our world is in crisis. Extreme weather caused by the climate emergency is wreaking havoc in our communities and ecosystems across the globe, causing social insecurity and harm to people.

The biggest cause of this crisis is fossil fuels - coal, oil and gas.

The fossil fuel industry is driving a predatory and destructive economic system that harms people and the planet, fuelling climate break down.

Fossil fuels are bad for the climate, for ecosystems, for our people, for our health, for our democracies and for our economies.

The fossil fuel industry has known for decades about the harm they are causing and have used every trick to keep their profits flowing.

For decades, peoples and communities across the world have campaigned tirelessly to sound the alarm about the dangerous and destructive realities of the coal, oil, and gas industries.

Across the world, people are fighting back against the fossil fuel industry.

We’re resisting the development of new pipelines, mines and infrastructure. We’re demanding that financial institutions stop funding fossil fuels. We’re pushing for a rapid, just and equitable phase out of all fossil fuels. We are fighting back against unproven technologies that don't address the root cause of the climate crisis, and closing escape hatches that would allow continuation of fossil fuel business as usual; and we’re demanding that big oil, coal and gas companies are held accountable and pay for the harm they cause.

The science is clear: what the world needs now is a rapid and just transition to an energy and economic system that is efficient, fair, and universal. A system based on clean energy sources, and produced with respect for nature and the sovereign rights of Indigenous peoples. 

This September, the global climate justice movement will escalate our actions in order to strengthen and broaden existing struggles and campaigns and together WE WILL end fossil fuels.

Our Demands

  • No new fossil fuels

    No new finance public or private, no new approvals, licenses, permits, or extensions. The provision of sufficient, consensual climate funding to realise this commitment everywhere.

  • A rapid, just and equitable phase out

    Phase out existing infrastructure in line with the 1.5ºC temperature limit with a global plan, like a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, to ensure that each country does its part.

  • New Commitments for International Coordination

    Drastically scale up financial and technology transfers to ensure renewable energy access, economic diversification plans, and just transition processes so that every country and community can phase out fossil fuels.

  • Stop greenwashing

    Stop claiming that offsets, carbon capture and storage, or geoengineering are solutions to the climate crisis.

  • Hold polluters responsible for the damage they've caused

    Make sure it's coal, oil, and gas corporations that pay reparations for climate loss and damage and for local rehabilitation, remediation and transition.

  • End fossil fuel corporate capture

    Say no to corporations writing the rules of climate action, bankrolling climate talks, or undermining the global response to climate change.

A GLOBAL call to action

This is a call to action for Indigenous and First Nations, youth activists, civil society organisations, social movements, feminist and migrant rights groups, trade unions, faith institutions, academic centres, health institutions, people of all genders and backgrounds, everywhere. Join us on September 15 & 17, 2023.

We need all hands on deck to win this fight.

Action can take many forms - speakouts, art installations, marches, protests, strikes, occupations, forums, gatherings, civil disobedience or digital mobilisations. 

Actions and events can focus on any of the harms that the fossil fuel industry poses to our communities and ecosystems, as well as those who enable the fossil fuel industry: governments, financial institutions and other industries.

We can show we have the solutions. As individuals we are often isolated and alone; together we are unstoppable.

To have any hope of addressing the root causes of the climate crisis, leaders of the biggest polluting countries must deliver a fast and fair phase out of fossil fuels and fund it globally.

The climate crisis is escalating and in response so is the global movement for climate justice. This September, we will scale the largest-ever global demand to #EndFossilFuels #FastFairForever

Join us.