600+ actions, 85+ countries, thousands on the streets drawing an urgent line for life, for the people and for the planet ahead of the UN Climate Summit in Brazil (COP30).
Highlights
Nairobi, Kenya
Credit: Esther Sweeney
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What's Next
We came to the streets strong, united and with a clear message: we need 2025 to be a turning point – for our climate, for clean energy, peace, and fairness! And we need our global leaders to show up for this task.
Floods, droughts, storms, and heatwaves are getting worse. Food and energy costs are going up while a few billionaires profit and prop up the industries that harm people and pollute our lands, air and waters.
With the UN Climate Summit (COP30) happening soon in Brazil, we need to keep momentum and pressure up to ensure our voices are heard in the corridors of power. This world is ours, and we will keep drawing the line!
What was Draw the Line?
Draw the Line was a global week of events starting on the 15th September, leading up to a weekend of actions on 19th-21st September. From mass rallies and marches to artistic interventions, thousands of ordinary people across the world came together in a massive show of strength, resistance and celebration to demand real, decisive and urgent action from world leaders ahead of COP30.
What were Draw the Line's demands?
Draw the Line…
…Against inequalities, tyranny, genocide, destruction, and chaos
…For rights, jobs, justice, democracy, and a fulfilling life on a safe planet
1. Change the System through an equitable and just transition
Change the System through an equitable and just transition towards a world that is in harmony with nature and centered on people - communities, workers, women, farmers, fishers, pastoralists, youth, children, indigenous peoples, migrants, refugees, people of color, LGBTQI, and future generations
2. Phase out fossil fuels, build renewables, shift to sustainable food – fast, fair, feminist, and forever
Phase out fossil fuels - fast, fair, feminist and forever; Shut down polluters; Build renewable energy systems that work for people and planet; Shift from high-carbon agro-industrial farming to agroecology and sustainable, resilient food systems that prioritize healthy staple food production for domestic consumption and the right to food.
3. Fund the future, not the crisis!
Fund the future, not the crisis! Tax multinational corporations and billionaires; Cancel the debt; Deliver climate finance; Divest from war, fossil fuels, and harmful projects; Scale up quality public services; Support people and community-led solutions; Finance the transition to resilient, sustainable, and equitable economies.
4. Reclaim and respect the Commons and territories, Restore the earth
Reclaim the Commons for sustainable support for life; Respect and uphold the territories of Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Communities; Restore the health of ecosystems; Stop extractivism.
5. Defend human rights, reclaim democracy, end war and genocide
Defend Human Rights and Reclaim Democracy; End war and genocide; Demilitarise and work for peace based on justice.
6. End inequalities across and within countries
End inequalities across countries and within countries: Democratize global economic and financial governance; Make trade, investments, and tax systems just and fair; Redistribute wealth and power; End colonialism, patriarchy, and racism; Build solidarity across peoples and nations.
Why September 2025?
What we do now will decide our future. The next five or ten years will define if we manage to keep global heating to a safe level or cross a point of no return – putting not only our planet, but us all in distress.
But instead of taking action, many governments are going backwards. They’re taking away people’s rights, breaking climate promises, and letting big fossil fuel companies keep polluting. Billionaires keep getting richer, while we are stuck paying higher prices for food, rent, and energy and facing the worst of climate impacts.
Happening just before the UN General Assembly, and less than six weeks away from COP30 in Brazil, Draw the Line was a landmark moment to push global leaders to take bolder and faster climate action, and to make sure our voices are heard in the corridors of power!
Participating organisations and groups
Draw the Line is the combined effort of:
350.org, ActionAid, Africa Just Transition Network, Afrika Vuka Network, Alliance for Future Generation, Amnesty International, Arms, Militarism and Climate Justice Working Group, Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development, Avaaz, Banktrack, Basandja Coalition, Brazilian Movements/ People's Summit/Cúpula dos Povos, Casa Pueblo Puerto Rico, Center for Biological Diversity, Children and Youth Constituency (YOUNGO), Climainfo, Climate Action Network, Climate Clock, Climate Defenders/Climate Organizing Hub, Climate Justice Coalition UK, Climate Legacy, Climate Whistleblowers, Climáximo, Code Pink, Coletivo Pororoka, Doughnut Economics Action Lab, Earth Now Media, Earth4All, Economy for the Common Good, Extinction Rebellion Deutschland, Fight Inequality Alliance, Fiji Council of Social Services, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, Fridays for Future Germany, Fridays for Future Ottawa, Friends of the Congo, Fundación Gaia Pacha, Global Alliance for Tax Justice (GATJ), Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP), Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ), Global Gas and Oil Network, Global Initiative For Food Security And Ecosystem Preservation (GIFSEP), Global Platforms Network, Global Trade Network, Grandmothers Advocacy Network, Green Economy Coalition, Green Environment Youth Korea, Greenfaith, Greenpeace, Hands Off Mother Earth (HOME), HelpAge International, Indigenous Peoples Caucus, Just Associates, Kick Big Polluters Out, Laudato Si' Movement, Le Collectif Bienvenue / Welcome Collective, Lutte & Contemplation, MENAFEM, Observatório do Marajó, Oil Change International, Oil & Gas Action Network, Our Kids' Climate, Oxfam, Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service, Pacific Climate Warriors, Pacific Conference of Churches, Palestinian Institute for Climate Strategy, Power Shift, Prosumer Economy Society (Türetim), Publish What You Pay, Rede Grupo de Trabalho Amazônico, Rede popular emergência florestal, Restless Development, Seeding Sovereignty, Seniors for Climate South Okanagan, South Okanagan Council of Canadians, Taproot Earth, The Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB), The Natural History Museum, Toronto Raging Grannies, Transparency International, War on Want, WEDO, Wellbeing Economy Alliance, Women and Gender, Women's March
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