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From Belem to Berlin, Nairobi to New York, hundreds of thousands of people are taking to the streets this weekend as part of the Draw the Line Global Week of Action.
United under a call from Indigenous leaders of the Amazon and the Pacific, people across more than 90 countries are joining marches, rallies, strikes, and creative actions to demand an end to fossil fuels, a just transition, and real climate justice.
More than 600 actions are taking place from September 15 to 21, 2025, culminating in mass demonstrations over the weekend. The mobilisations highlight escalating climate impacts, rising food and energy costs, deadly floods and heatwaves, and growing insecurity driven by fossil fuels and conflict. Protesters are also uplifting community-led solutions: renewable energy systems, debt cancellation, fair taxation, and land rights for Indigenous peoples and traditional communities.
Draw the Line actions showcase both resistance and hope. From mass rallies to candlelight vigils, participants are demanding a future built on peace, clean energy, and fairness.
Regional Highlights
Pacific
Hundreds will gather across Pacific villages, cities, and shorelines to demand stronger action in line with the 1.5℃ target. In Fiji, communities will assemble at the Suva foreshore to Draw the Line against further loss and damage. Pacific communities in Melbourne, Brisbane, and Sydney will rally to condemn Australia’s weak newly released emissions targets.
Youth across the Marshall Islands, Palau, Aotearoa, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tuvalu, and Kiribati are organising cultural celebrations, education programmes, and storytelling events to defend their heritage from climate chaos. These actions build momentum towards COP30, where leaders will face mounting pressure to close the Ambition Gap and keep 1.5℃ alive.
Asia
Across Indonesia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China, thousands marched or held creative local actions demanding climate and social justice. Frontline communities hit hardest by coal, gas, and extreme weather demanded an end to fossil fuel expansion and called on wealthy nations to meet their obligations. Festivals showcasing renewable energy solutions demonstrated where climate funds should flow, and what a fairer, safer future could look like.
Africa
From Nairobi to Lagos, Johannesburg to Dakar, communities will be mobilising to Draw the Line against fossil fuel dependency that drives both economic instability and worsening climate disasters. On Thursday, September 18, a Draw the Line demonstration took place in Johannesburg.
In Abuja, the Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation (GIFSEP) is promoting the “March for the Future” in support of the passage of the ESHIA Bill and the “Draw The Line” campaign on Saturday, September 20, 2025.
“This march is a crucial step towards ensuring the ESHIA Bill, designed to address Nigeria’s urgent environmental and climate challenges linked to developmental projects, receives timely passage by the National Assembly,” said Akintunde Akinmolayan, the GIFSEP Field and GIS Analyst.
Europe
From September 18 to 21, tens of thousands took to the streets. In London, the Make Them Pay march united unions, migrant justice groups, and climate campaigners. In Berlin, workers, Fridays for Future activists, and economic justice groups led a creative march, with more than 60 additional demonstrations across Germany.
Across the continent, from Amsterdam to Athens and Lisbon to Istanbul over 80 demonstrations brought together farmers, students, and social justice groups to demand taxes on the super-rich and polluters to fund climate action and public services. Momentum is now building toward 28 September in Paris, where unions, racial justice groups, and climate organisations will join in a carnival-style mass march.
United States
Tens of thousands will rally in more than 30 cities across the U.S, demanding that Billionaires Pay and to fight back against fueling big oil, the dismantling of democracy and attacks on immigrants.
Canada
From Vancouver to Toronto and Montreal, people everywhere are rising up to demand climate justice, peace, and real democracy. Drawing the line for a better world: with clean energy for all, protection for people and nature, and accountability for those.
Latin America
In the Brazilian Amazon, fishing communities in Marajó formed a striking 20-boat line on the waters of Jubim. The action will draw a visible line against the climate crisis and political inaction, sending a clear message to world leaders that fossil fuels have no place in the future of the Amazon or the climate negotiations at COP30.
