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✨ The fight isn't over: A senior Albanese government climate adviser has challenged the state approval of the largest coal mining development in New South Wales’s history. Jacynta Fa'amau, 350.org Pacific campaigner, says in The Guardian: “It’s not just the Pacific that will suffer. The science has made it very clear that whether Australia burns its coal at home or overseas, the wildfires, floods and droughts will remain at their front door." Yancoal and Glencore's mine expansion still needs approval under federal environment law before the end of the year. Australia, as COP31 co-president, must abandon this project -- or risk being exposed for hypocrisy at the climate summit. https://lnkd.in/gCJf6RCc

Days before Australia leads the Pre-COP meetings in Fiji, it approved the largest coal mine expansion in New South Wales -- Glencore and Yancoal’s Hunter Valley Operations Continuation Project. 350.org Pacific, together with communities, has made over 4,000 submissions to the Albanese government opposing the move. The coal mine is a carbon bomb 💣 that will release 800 million more tonnes of pollution. “We are days away from Pre-COP in Fiji, and Australia will unfortunately enter these discussions with an 800 million-tonne shadow over them. Every promise from Australia will be measured against their decisions to either lock us into decades of climate pollution, or shut down coal expansion once and for all. It’s not rocket science – you cannot come to the Pacific, witness the severity of our climate impacts, and go home and approve a giant coal mine." - Fenton Lutunatabua, 350.org Pacific Here's our full statement: https://lnkd.in/g4HRTXJt Photo credit: Lock the Gate Alliance

🔥 This piece of scorched earth just a few kilometres away where world leaders will gather in Antalya for the COP31 climate summit is a reminder: THE CLIMATE CRISIS HERE. Türkiye, COP31 host and co-president, is experiencing severe climate impacts, such as a wildfire that raged in Antalya recently. But it has yet to present a concrete plan for phasing out fossil fuels, particularly coal. "We’re in Aksu to show the reality of the climate crisis on the ground. These areas left behind by the fire show that the crisis is not an abstract future scenario. The climate crisis is burning our home, and the real cause is fossil fuels." - Ege Tok, 350.org Türkiye Here's our full statement + more photos & videos: https://lnkd.in/gBiE8_f7 Credit: 350 Türkiye

Extreme weather has been relentless: from the catastrophic floods in Nepal and the lethal heatwaves across Europe and India, to the choking wildfires in North America, France, and Spain. Right now, the city of Bangkok is underwater, with all 50 of its districts declared a disaster zone. But every disaster now brings two crises: the one outside our windows, and the one on our feeds. Heatwaves get downplayed. Floods get blamed on neighbouring countries. Wildfires get pinned on conspiracy theories. Such lies come with real costs: they endanger lives, divide communities, and stall climate action. In a new guest blog for 350.org, Tom Ellison (The Center for Climate and Security) and Philip Newell (Climate Action Against Disinformation) explain: 1. The three main types of disaster disinformation: environmental, political, and hateful/extremist 2. Who benefits: fossil fuel interests, engagement-driven algorithms, and authoritarian and extremist actors 3. What we can do about it, from "pre-bunking" and the "truth sandwich" to building real-world networks before a crisis hits We prepare for fires and floods. It's time we prepared for the lies that come with them too. 👉 Read the full blog: https://lnkd.in/df4fPCgj #ClimateCrisis #Disinformation #ExtremeWeather #ClimateAction #InformationResilience

🌍 With Ethiopia hosting next year's COP32 climate summit, Africa plays a pivotal role in championing a people-centred transition away from fossil fuels. At the 81st UN General Assembly, Ethiopian president Taye Atske Selassie stepped up to call for fairer African representation in global decision-making, and accelerated debt relief to free up capital for climate action. He reminded world leaders: we need tangible delivery, not more promises. Rukiya Khamis, 350.org East Africa welcomed the Ethiopian leader's commitment: "We hope to see this same resolve translate into drastic action that can push governments to end fossil fuel dependence and ensure clean, affordable renewables for all.” https://lnkd.in/g5rew7vp

🔥 France was on fire this summer. So it took to the streets. 🪧 Around 120,000 people took to the streets last Saturday in 260 cities and villages across France, calling for urgent action on climate and social justice. After a summer of deadly heatwaves, devastating wildfires that forced 250,000 people from their homes, and severe droughts that wiped out harvests, the government's response has fallen far short. ✂️ The French government had already cut the Green Fund, which funds local climate mitigation and adaptation projects, to a third of its size in just three years -- and slashed it further in the wake of this summer's heatwaves. The government has also backtracked on a promise to renovate schools to be better equipped for extreme heat. The message is clear: investing in adaptation and ending toxic dependence on fossil fuels can no longer be an afterthought. "We refuse to let political leaders forget. Instead of making big polluters pay, the government rolls out the red carpet for them. That's not leadership, it's cowardice. As the 2027 budget negotiations are about to start and the presidential race heats up, our message is simple: we won't back down, and climate action will not be sidelined. It is time to tax those who fuel the climate, energy and social crises and get rich, while we suffer." -Fanny Petitbon, 350.org France Here's our full statement: https://lnkd.in/g9DSSwdP Photo credit: Hugo Duchesne/ 350.org

⚡ End fossil fuels and switch to 100% renewable energy Last Friday, almost 600 people marched in Tokyo to call for urgent climate action. Japan's record-breaking summer heat has prevented children from playing outdoors and led to a rise in emergency hospitalizations, while drought, torrential rains, and flood damage have also severely affected agriculture. 🪧 Children and the elderly, who are among the most climate-vulnerable sectors, joined the Climate March. A participant from Kamakura City who joined with her 4-year-old daughter said, "I tell her that the Earth is currently sick and running a fever... As a mother of two children, I want to walk forward with strength and solidarity toward solving humanity's greatest challenge." Risa Iizuka, 350.org Japan organizer said: "At the recent UN General Assembly, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stated that all nations must seriously address global warming. But Japan's plan to use more coal and gas keeps the country tied to fossil fuels instead of moving away from them. We urgently needed to eliminate all subsidies for fossil fuels, implement energy conservation measures, and meet our energy needs with renewable electricity. As we look toward the COP31 climate summit in Antalya, we urge the government to protect future generations by ending our reliance on imported fossil fuels and advancing electrification powered by affordable renewables." Photo credit: 350.org Japan

📣 Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, has committed to phasing out fossil fuels by 2045. It is the third major developed economy to publish such a roadmap, after a historic conference in Colombia where governments committed to transition away from fossil fuels. 350.org's Andreas Sieber told The Guardian that the plan marked a “notable shift” in making the phaseout of fossil fuels an explicit policy goal. But he warned that Germany’s ministry for economic affairs and energy was also pushing intensely for greater use of gas. https://lnkd.in/dkdGvUMR

🎤 “We have heard many times today that the question is no longer whether we should end our addiction to fossil fuels, or even if we can. The challenge now is to do it fast enough to stem the tide of destruction and death while we still can, and to do it in a just and equitable way that creates opportunity and prosperity for everyone." At the Civil Society Organizations Leadership Panel during the UN General Assembly in New York, 350.org's Anne Jellema says that it is time to demand affordable clean energy as a right, not as a privilege. Governments must scale up the bottom-up energy revolution: by shifting fossil fuel subsidies to 100% renewable solutions that will provide abundant, reliable energy to all. 📑 Read our statement: https://lnkd.in/d8HEy3Vp 📺 Watch the recording: https://lnkd.in/dSutF73X

🎤 At the 81st session of the UN General Assembly as host of this year’s COP31 climate summit, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan promised to champion justice by fulfilling financial commitments, accelerating technology transfer, and turning climate pledges into concrete action. But his speech had one glaring omission: a fossil fuels phaseout. This exposes the gap between Türkiye’s COP31’s host-nation rhetoric and the fossil fuel buildout happening at home. “As COP31 host, Türkiye has so far not done enough to signal that it will advance the transition away from fossil fuels – which is mission critical given that we are in the midst of our biggest fossil fuel and climate crisis yet. Also, Türkiye has yet to commit to a fossil fuel phase-out plan at home, where it continues to expand coal. That contradiction has to be resolved before COP31 opens. Hosting COP31 is not just a diplomatic opportunity, it’s a chance to change course." - Efe Baysal, 350.org Türkiye Here's our full statement: https://lnkd.in/g65mTZ-Q Credit: UN Photo