The climate crisis is being funded
Thankfully, local campaigns have their eye on the money. In this Fossil Free News, we look at brilliant organizing going on right now to put an end to fossil fuel finance.
Accelerate the shift to a new, just, clean energy economy that works for everyone by supporting community-led energy solutions.
We can’t keep powering our lives with dirty fuels from the last century. It’s time to repower our communities with clean, renewable energy from the sun, earth, wind and water.
The transition to a clean energy economy needs to be fast and fair, leaving no one behind. Let’s give people and communities more control and take the power back from unaccountable big companies.
Start or join a campaign to call on your local authority, university, place of worship, or local business to pledge to transition fast and fairly to 100% renewable energy for all.
Solar panels can power a building, but it takes communities to power change. By connecting our efforts and telling the story of our clean energy future, we can build the fairer neighbourhoods we want to see, and make local and national governments follow our lead.
We are campaigning from the grassroots up to the national and global level. Here’s an overview of how it works at each level.
Local people working together in their neighbourhood push local institutions to pledge to 100% renewable energy, and call on local and national politicians to support it.
Push for legislation or policy changes for 100% renewable, accessible, fair energy for all.
Local groups and institutions across the world joining forces at key coordinated moments, creating the urgent momentum for the global energy transition.
After years resisting individual mega fossil fuel projects, local activists in Portland decided to demand more.
Three years and two city council resolutions later, new local policies prevent any new fossil fuel facilities and are accelerating a just transition to social, clean energy.
Thankfully, local campaigns have their eye on the money. In this Fossil Free News, we look at brilliant organizing going on right now to put an end to fossil fuel finance.
There is nothing pragmatic about ignoring the threat of climate change. The only realistic plan is one ambitious enough to match the scale of the crisis, and to transform our society for the better in the process.
100,000s of young people took part in school strikes, with hundreds more events still planned around the globe. All the latest:
Around the world, people have been busy building skills and getting out in the streets to win climate campaigns.
As the Green New Deal takes center stage in the US, coal plants are being abandoned around the world in the wake of people-powered campaigns. Here’s the latest global news.