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We are stronger when we work together.

That's why it's so important to us at 350.org to keep you informed on our work, whether it's a recent win, loss, learning experience, or upcoming plans. And with our new strategic direction of focusing on climate solutions rooted in justice, we want to send you an update on what that looks like, how it affects the kind of work we've been doing, and what we're planning for the near future. So here's a sneak peek into a few select campaign plans in our three main categories of work:

Community-owned renewable energy

Here at 350.org, we are working to build community-owned renewable energy hubs all over the globe. Why? Because it's not enough to transition away from greedy fossil fuel companies, we need to ensure that the transition is just and rooted in equity for the communities who have been hit the hardest by the climate crisis.

In Africa, we are launching a community-driven renewable energy campaign in Uganda called IGEN-Uganda, which aims to identify and close institutional gaps that are currently undermining clean energy access, support clean energy champions in lobbying the Ugandan government to shift from fossil fuels to clean energy, and skill up local communities in clean energy entrepreneurship.

We're also expanding our movement in Nigeria, where we'll advocate for the implementation of climate change policies and actions that promote a low-carbon economy, environmental integrity and sustainable development. This will include distributing solar kits to households, spreading awareness on the barriers and enablers of renewable energy integration in the country, and pushing the government to implement a Climate Change Act that focuses on real solutions instead of gas.

In Asia, our work has previously focused heavily on targeting governments and banks to stop the flow of finances to fossil fuel projects, which puts the Asia team in a unique position to pivot this work towards campaigning for investments in community-owned renewable energy. That means big chunks of our established campaign tactics and partnerships can be repurposed and activated to campaign for renewable energy finances.

In Japan, we'll keep the pressure on the Japanese government alongside the Japanese megabanks, because it's the government's policies that are enabling the banks to continue to invest in dirty energy projects. We'll mobilize our people power to push the government to overhaul its Basic Energy Plan, so that rather than promoting dirty energy, it enables and encourages investments in community-led renewable energy.

Stopping new fossil fuel projects

Massive fossil fuel projects pose immediate and deadly risks to our people and our planet. That's why we are doing everything we can to target the biggest and most reckless fossil fuel projects on the globe:

Our team in Africa is calling for an end to the proposed East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), which poses huge social, environmental, and economic risks to communities, wildlife and ecosystems in Uganda and Tanzania. Having achieved massive victories already by getting 25 big banks and 22 major insurance companies to rule out support for EACOP, we will continue our work to spread awareness about this destructive project and pressure banks and insurers to rule out their support until EACOP is stopped for good.

But that's not all — our Africa team is also going to focus heavily on campaigns such as Fossil Free Virunga, Coal Free Nigeria and Don't Gas Africa in the near future. For the Fossil Free Virunga campaign, which aims to protect Africa's oldest national park and its wealth of biodiversity from fossil fuel extraction, we're supporting a number of locally led actions focused on building a wider coalition dedicated to protecting Virunga, facilitating knowledge sharing, and developing next steps for a collective campaign strategy. And the Don't Gas Africa campaign aims to connect the ongoing anti-gas work in Senegal, Ivory Coast, Mozambique and South Africa, because if there's one thing we know, it's that we're stronger when we all work together.

Banks and fossil fuel companies in the Global North play a massive role in exacerbating the climate crisis, and we have to keep up the pressure to make them stop their destructive practices. That's why our Europe team is continuing to focus on the #StopTotal campaign — TotalEnergies is a French oil giant which is currently attempting to build the EACOP mega-pipeline in Uganda and Tanzania. We're hard at work pressuring banks to stop funding Total, and spreading awareness about how Total alone is a massive obstacle for clean energy in Europe due to their influence over energy politics. Our movement won't rest until we've stopped Total once and for all.

Movement building and trainings

Our climate movement is made up of tens of thousands of people all over the globe from every walk of life. Our aim is to deepen and expand our diverse climate movement by investing in climate leaders and 350.org local groups around the globe.

On the beautiful island of Bali, in Indonesia, 350's Indonesia team has a plan. They want to create the future that's within their reach, by engaging the residents and fishermen that have been campaigning against coal plants, and working with local communities to power up their lives with their own renewable energy. But it will do more than that. It will be a living example of where the funds for energy really need to be invested. It will change the story of what's possible.

350 Indonesia has strong connections to carry out this work, such as with youth in Bali that graduated from trainings like their Kelas Iklim Bali (Climate Class) — a two-day training for the Balinese youth on the climate crisis, the solutions, and how they can get involved in the climate justice movement.

On a regional scale, 350's Asia team has strengthened the region's youth climate movement, linking people that felt alone and nurturing their leadership through their annual regional mass training: the Asia Solidarity Lab. So we are hopeful that the lessons from 350 Indonesia's training and organizing could provide inspiration and tools across the continent.

And they're not alone in their work to grow the movement for renewable energy — in the heart of the unique Brazilian Amazon, 350's Latin America team have stood in solidarity with indigenous leaders resisting oil and gas mining causing the destruction of their way of life, the world's largest rainforest, and the planet.

350 Latin America wants to radically change public and political imaginations going forward — by offering to support the resilience of traditional and indigenous communities through increasing community-centered renewable energy in the Amazon, by building new and deepening old partnerships with local grassroots organizations, by creating a network of journalists willing to actively cover the subject of just climate solutions and renewable energy, and by continuing to support and strengthen grassroots trainings across the region that currently focus on resistance to the fossil fuel industry and the detrimental effects of oil and gas extraction, while adding in a new focus on a just energy transition.

Thank you so much for your interest in our work. We hope you've enjoyed getting a sneak peek into some of our campaign plans!

If you're feeling inspired today by the plans we've just shared, please consider making your very first contribution to 350.org and help fund our campaigns to end the era of fossil fuels. Your donation will go straight towards our Solutions Fund, and help finance projects like these around the world.

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