Energy is vital to realizing people’s rights, social justice, and sustainable development. Yet the world’s dominant energy systems completely fail more than two billion people and have destructive local impacts – damaging our health, destroying our crops, and poisoning our rivers and forests.

The current energy systems also drive global warming. This climate change is already wreaking havoc on the lives of tens of millions of people worldwide by turbocharging floods, droughts, and storms; driving people from their homes; acidifying the oceans; and driving an unprecedented extinction of non-human species. Climate change puts all of our lives, livelihoods, societies, and cultures at risk.

The transformation is already happening but we must accelerate it. Reclaim Power has unified the global push for a just energy transformation since 2013, with 1000s of actions in over 75 countries. We are united in our demands to:

1. Ban new dirty energy projects
2. End government subsidies and public handouts to dirty energy companies
3. Stop excessive energy consumption by corporations and global elites
4. Redirect and mobilize public finance to ensure people’s universal access to energy and make the complete shift to public and community/decentralized renewable and clean energy systems as soon as possible
5. Divest from fossil fuel corporations

From 1-15 October 2018 we will take global action to demand the transformation of our failed energy systems and to demonstrate we are building the systems we need today.

To join us in sending that message and accelerating the global energy transformation:

1. Plan an event or activity that highlights the global Reclaim Power demands in your community or country;
2. Spread the word and distribute this call to action – ask others to plan an action and join Reclaim power;
3. Participate in other Reclaim Power events and actions and amplify them through your media channels;
4. Share photos, videos, and materials from your actions so that other Reclaim Power partners can spread their reach.

Actions and events are already planned to take place in dozens of countries all over the world throughout the period October 1-15, including during key dates such as:

October 6 - 13 – Friends of the Earth International Week of Action

Friends of the Earth groups across six continents will mobilise together to highlight the climate emergency, to fight dirty energy and false solutions and to call for a people-led transformation of our energy systems.

October 8 - 14 – Annual Meeting of the International Monetary Fund & World Bank

The Asian People's Movement on Debt & Development will mobilise with other Asian and international networks to call out the financiers of dirty and harmful energy projects during the IMF/World Bank Annual Meeting in Bali, Indonesia.

October 13 – Global Frack Down

Anti-gas activists across the globe will target those behind the boom of fossil gas and fracking infrastructure: the industry, governments, petrochemical giants that make plastics out of fossil fuels and banks that finance all of this.

In 2018 the Reclaim Power Partners are also united in calling for measurable and time-bound policy measures to which governments can immediately commit to show they are serious about tackling the climate crisis. By the end of 2018 we are demanding that governments:

1. COMMIT to 100% renewable energy for all, to be achieved not later than 2030 for developed countries and as early as possible before 2050 for developing countries

2. PLEDGE the finance necessary to build democratic, renewable energy systems for communities, ensure a just transition, provide universal access to energy, support demand side reduction and energy saving measures

3. AGREE to an international moratorium of new coal projects to be implemented no later than January 2019

4. BAN fracking and adopt a global moratorium on new fossil fuel exploration and extraction techniques starting in 2018, towards ending fossil fuels extraction as soon as possible

5. STOP large and dangerous energy projects, examples of which include:

   

   • The Cirebon coal project in Indonesia;

   • The Adani Carmichael coal mine in Australia;

   • Offshore oil drilling in Lofoten, Norway;

   • The Dakota Access Pipeline in the US;

   • The Rositas and Chepete mega-dams in Bolivia;

   • Offshore gas drilling in Mozambique;

   • Fracking in the Guarani Aquifer in South America.

6. ANNOUNCE a phase out of public subsidies for fossil fuels to be completed by 2020 for all developed countries and the international institutions they fund, and by 2025 for all developing countries

7. WITHDRAW all public financing of large-scale biomass burning, agrofuels, mega-dams and waste incineration by 2018

8. ADOPT binding national and international policies that prohibit industries who profit from fossil fuels and the climate crisis, and those representing their interests, from participating in international and national climate policy forums