APRIL 2026
Governments will meet
we will rise
On April 24–29, Colombia and the Netherlands will convene a decisive climate summit: The First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, in Santa Marta, Colombia. Use this site to find out how you can be involved, no matter where in the world you are.
This April, governments will meet in Santa Marta, Colombia for a historic conference addressing the phase out of fossil fuels. Will you be part of history by organising or joining one of more than 1,000 satellite events globally this April?
Join one of the largest ever organising efforts to build power, create momentum, and push policymakers to manage a fast, fair and financed transition away from coal, oil and gas production – including through making sure the Santa Marta Conference advances a significant step toward negotiation of a Fossil Fuel Treaty.
A change is coming. Will you be a part of it?
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I CAN GO TO SANTA MARTA
This is a historic opportunity, but we know that for a major international meeting on fossil fuels to be a success, we will need civil society, land defenders, Indigenous peoples, trade unions, youth activists, subnational governments and academics to have a strong presence in Santa Marta.
If you can, consider applying to attend Colombia’s High-Level Segment (deadline for applications was February 26) and join Stakeholder Dialogues in-person, including the People’s Summit.
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I WANT TO HELP FROM MY REGION
While governments meet in Santa Marta, you can help make this a historic moment by organising one of more than a thousand satellite events around the world.
There are already plans for mini-conferences, protests, strategy workshops, vigils, mass virtual meetings, launches of local groups, flotillas, non-violent direct action, and more.
Colombia is hosting the first ever diplomatic conference on the just transition away from fuels to spark a wave of international cooperation on the phase out of coal, oil and gas. What can you host in your community to be a part of this same fight?
MAP OF EVENTS
While governments gather in Santa Marta to discuss the phase-out of fossil fuels, communities everywhere have a role to play.
This page allows you to register the event you are organizing — wherever you are in the world — and connect it to a coordinated global moment for a fast, fair and financed transition away from coal, oil and gas.
By filling out the form below, your action will appear on the global map of distributed events and become part of a growing worldwide push to make fossil fuel phase-out politically inevitable.
Upcoming events are listed in orange and past events are in purple.
Out there in the world, the global context is heavy: wars, climate impacts, social injustices, and all other forms of domination are not separate crises — they are symptoms of the same fossil-fuelled system. As long as coal, oil, and gas underpin power and profit, peace will remain out of reach.
The Santa Marta Conference is a rare opportunity to demand real climate action. A meeting that could unite a coalition of the willing, states ready to manage a fast, fair and financed transition away from fossil fuels including through the negotiation of a Fossil Fuel Treaty.
But this moment isn’t just about one meeting. It’s the beginning of a process that not only unites a bloc of nation-states, but also can inject significant momentum, power and impact into the global climate justice movement.
Civil society globally is coordinating on having significant influence on the Santa Marta Conference, through developing a shared set of demands, coordinating key stakeholder dialogues, events, submissions and engagement with the host governments. Anyone can be involved in this historic moment.
Why ORGANISE?
Phasing out fossil fuels is not only a climate imperative; it is a condition for justice, sovereignty, and peace. This is a unique moment. One that calls for broad participation — your participation — through distributed actions: you don’t have to be in Santa Marta to shape its impact. The just transition away from fossil fuels requires all of us to participate, everywhere.
The Santa Marta Conference marks a global turning point, led by a coalition of committed governments from the Global South, toward a new non-aligned, fossil-free path. By choosing cooperation over extraction, people power over domination, and by pushing to advance the effort of a growing bloc of nations to negotiate a Fossil Fuel Treaty, we lay the foundations to revive multilateral cooperation, restore international norms, and accelerate a global just transition away from fossil fuels as a foundation for lasting peace, stability and a healthy, secure, and prosperous future for all.
We need to be part of this effort for a fossil fuel phaseout. Historic processes that have forged treaties and greater international cooperation on nuclear weapons, landmines and protecting the ozone would never have happened if it weren’t for powerful social movements, civil society, and a global network of individuals and organisations across the world holding governments to account and fighting to protect what we love from urgent threats. We must now do the same for fossil fuels.
By organising satellite events in your area – whether those be “mini Santa Marta conferences”, marches, vigils, ceremonies, local strategy meetings, protests or somethings else – you can help bring the global movement for a just transition back home, to your doorsteps, and build a genuine just transition, by and for the people.
Our Historic Demands – more coming soon
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No new fossil fuels
No new projects, finance - public or private- subsidies and no new approvals, licences, permits, or extensions. Provision of sufficient, consensual, predictable, public and grant-based climate funding raised through just taxation reform and other innovative public measures to realise this commitment everywhere. Debt cancellation across all creditors so countries have the resources to transition and are no longer forced to exploit fossil fuels to generate revenue to repay debt.
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A rapid, just and equitable phase out
Phase out existing infrastructure in line with the 1.5C temperature limit and a global plan, like a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, in order to ensure that each country does its fair part.
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New Commitments for International Cooperation
Drastically scale up financial and technology transfers to ensure renewable energy access, economic diversification plans, and Just Transition processes so that every country and community can phase out fossil fuels. In light of the climate debt and reparations owed to communities and countries experiencing the worst impacts of the climate crisis, financial and technology transfers must be understood as reparations, not aid.
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Stop greenwashing
Stop claiming that offsets, carbon capture and storage, nature based solutions or geoengineering are solutions to the climate crisis.
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Hold polluters responsible for the damage they've caused
Make sure it's coal, oil, and gas corporations that pay reparations for climate loss and damage and for local rehabilitation, remediation and transition through global corporate tax justice and accountability mechanisms.
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End fossil fuel corporate capture
NO to corporations writing the rules of climate action, bankrolling or participating in climate talks, or undermining the global response to climate change.
Encourage your Minister to Attend
Colombia has invited over 60 countries to join them at this historic conference in Santa Marta. Use the below tool to find out if your country has been invited, and to contact your relevant Minister not only encouraging them to attend but to also arrive with increased ambition and commitment to supporting a fast and fair transition away from fossil fuels – including joining the 18 nation-states who will come to Santa Marta to discuss advancing the negotiation of a Fossil Fuel Treaty.
WHO WE ARE
This project is coordinated by the following organizations and groups. It has been initiated and supported by the Consejo Permanente para la Transición Energética Justa, CAN International, the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice and the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative.
This isn’t like previous Global Days of Action focused on people hitting the streets, it’s a moment to inject significant energy, momentum, coordination and hope into the global movement for a fossil free future.
We cannot leave this transition to governments alone. Be a part of history, by organising yoru community to participate in planning for a fast and fair transition away from fossil fuels, including building political and public support in your region behind the proposal to negotiate a Fossil Fuel Treaty.
Anyone can be involved in this effort, you don’t have to be an expert. We’ll be here to support you every step of the way, whenever you need.
