John -

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:

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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.

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