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350 Asia @350asia.bsky.social · 3d

From riverbanks to streets, Bangladesh 🇧🇩 rose to #DrawTheLine for climate justice and a future powered by people, not profit. ✊

🔗 drawtheline.world

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350 Asia @350asia.bsky.social · 4d

China's pledge to reduce emissions & boost renewables can help ASEAN economies accelerate a low-carbon transition.

But what it does beyond its borders is the real test of China's climate commitments.

350 Asia's Chuck Baclagon on @chinadailyasia.bsky.social

www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202510/07/...

China's pledge sets green stage for ASEAN

China's commitment to further reducing emissions and boosting renewable energy production is expected to encourage Southeast Asian economies to accelerate their low-carbon transition, analysts said.

www.chinadaily.com.cn

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350 Asia @350asia.bsky.social · 5d

Our hearts are with the people in Nepal. 💔

Warming oceans = more severe rainfall. Unless we stop burning fossil fuels, vulnerable communities across Asia will keep paying a steep price for a crisis they didn't create.

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Nepalese villages are swept away by heavy rainfall and landslides, leaving at least 44 dead | CNN

Landslides, a lighting strike and floodings triggered by severe rainfall killed at least 44 people in Nepal on Sunday, with five others reported missing, authorities said.

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350 Asia @350asia.bsky.social · 5d

On Sept 19–21, thousands across Asia rose up to #DrawTheLine ✊ for life, for people, and for the planet. Over 50 actions in 12 countries filled our region with color, courage & collective power.

As the world heads to #COP30, we keep the line alive!

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350 Asia @350asia.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you @globalvoices.org! ❤️

"We hope to continuously engage the thousands of people we've reached...to build a stronger climate movement in Asia that would propel us towards a better, cleaner, fairer future." #DrawTheLine

globalvoices.org/2025/09/30/d...

‘Draw the Line’ in Asia: Community organizers call for climate justice and accountability

"We draw the line as flash floods drown the innocent, while people’s voices against government failures are being silenced."

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350 Asia @350asia.bsky.social · 8d

Instead of blaming foreign workers, Japan's new PM must recognise climate change as one the main culprits of rising costs of living--and deliver climate action "as an act of love and necessity."

350.org Japan's Masayoshi Iyoda writes for
@thediplomat.com

thediplomat.com/2025/10/an-a...

An Anti-immigration Push Won’t Solve Japan’s Cost of Living Woes

Blaming foreigners may be politically convenient, but it distracts from one of the true culprits behind inflation: climate change.

thediplomat.com

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350 Asia @350asia.bsky.social · 11d

"The wind blew my roof to the sky and then it fell down, breaking everything."

Another powerful storm rips through Asia, with deadly consequences. Ordinary people are paying the price for big polluters' greed. We need real climate action, NOW. #DrawTheLine

www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/vietnam...

Typhoon Bualoi kills dozens in Vietnam and Philippines

The typhoon damaged homes and infrastructure, and forced hundreds of thousands to evacuate in both countries.

www.channelnewsasia.com

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350 Asia @350asia.bsky.social · 12d

South Korea, one of the world's top 10 emitters, has yet to submit its climate action plans.

Youth from climate group GEYK walked barefoot to #DrawTheLine for ambitious climate targets: nothing less than 65% emissions reduction by 2035 to guarantee their survival.

www.ntoday.co.kr/news/article...

청년단체 GEYK, 2035 NDC 앞두고 캠페인...“감축 목표 65% 이하는 안 돼”

【투데이신문 전세라 기자】 기후변화청년단체(이하 ‘GEYK’)가 11월에 확정될 2035 국가온실가스감축목표(NDC)를 앞두고 65% 이상 감축 목표 설정을 요구하는 캠페인을 벌였다.GEYK은 지난 21일 오전 서울숲에서 국제사회와의 책임 있는 약속을 촉구하기 위해 캠페인을 진행했다고 22일 밝혔다. ‘Draw the Line for NDC 어싱 액션’ 행...

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350 Asia @350asia.bsky.social · 15d

"The world is moving away from coal, yet Bangladesh continues to burden its people with expensive, polluting projects that will lock us into decades of environmental destruction and debt," said Amanullah Porag, 350.org South Asia Mobilizations Coordinator.

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Energy & Power Magazine

Communities Draw the Line on Matarbari Coal Plant 2 Revival

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350 Asia @350asia.bsky.social · 16d

As Supertyphoon Ragasa tears through Asia, world leaders talk climate in New York. At COP30, anything less than a fossil fuel phaseout, renewable energy scale-up, and payment of climate debt means more chaos and injustice. #DrawTheLine

🔗: 350asia.org/press-releas...

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350 Asia @350asia.bsky.social · 22d

Philippine groups march from España to Mendiola to say: enough of corruption, fossil fuels & climate injustice! 🚨

September marks a turning point as we #DrawTheLine for system change & just transition.

Activities continue today at PUP-Institute of Technology, 1–8PM (GMT+8).

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350 Asia @350asia.bsky.social · 23d

📢 This Sept 19–21, thousands across Asia will rise up for climate justice. 54+ actions will call out governments & polluters for betraying our hopes of a fair, livable future.

As global climate talks near, communities will #DrawTheLine: fund our future, not the climate crisis.

🔗 drawtheline.world

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350 Asia @350asia.bsky.social · 24d

"There can be no climate justice without human rights."

As President Prabowo appears at the UN next week, 350 Indonesia's Sisilia Dewi tells why climate injustice IS social injustice -- and why people are finally drawing the line. @aljazeera.com

#DrawTheLine

www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Indonesia’s climate ambitions can’t shine in the dark

The Indonesian government cannot pursue an ambitious climate agenda while neglecting its human rights obligations.

www.aljazeera.com

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350 Asia @350asia.bsky.social · 29d

The latest disaster serves as a reminder that the climate crisis is an "urgent threat" that demands action from world leaders, including Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, says 350.org Indonesia's Suriadi Darmoko.

#DrawTheLine

www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/as...

Death toll from Indonesia flash floods rises to 19

JAKARTA: The death toll from deadly flash floods that swept two Indonesian islands, including tourist hotspot Bali, rose to 19 on Thursday (Sept 11), officials said, with five others missing.

www.thestar.com.my

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350 Asia @350asia.bsky.social · Sep 10

📢 It’s time to draw the line against polluters and the funding of fossil fuel companies!

Join an action near you! Visit drawtheline.world to RSVP 🔗.

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350 Asia @350asia.bsky.social · Sep 2

On Aug 28, diverse community groups marched in Jakarta demanding the passage of the Climate Justice Bill. Despite prior notice, security forces temporarily blocked the action — a move organizers condemned as a violation of people’s rights.

This Sep 15–21, let's #DrawTheLine ✊

🔗 drawtheline.world

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350 Asia @350asia.bsky.social · Aug 21

Trump claimed he’s “never seen a wind farm in China.”❓ But Filipino scholar Princess Agnila has seen thousands, on mountains, in deserts, and offshore.

In a blog, she shares: China’s clean energy revolution is real, massive, and growing 📈.

350asia.org/trump-said-t...

Trump said there are no wind farms in China, but I see them everywhere

A recent claim made by the U.S. President Donald Trump has yet again caused an uproar throughout the media. It was on July 4 at the White House when he said, 'I have never seen a wind farm in China.'

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350 Asia @350asia.bsky.social · Aug 20

👏 Congrats Farzana Faruk Jhumu — co-founder of KaathPencil, 350 Asia Network Council member & Climate Justice Squad alum — on joining the UN Youth Advisory Group!

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Bangladesh youth leader joins UN advisory group: We must ‘Draw the Line’ on fossil fuel expansion

350.org Asia celebrates the appointment of Bangladesh climate activist Farzana Faruk Jhumu to the UN Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change, a mechanism for the UN Secretary-General to engage directly...

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350 Asia @350asia.bsky.social · Aug 18

After 17 years, Bangladesh finally heads to the polls 🗳️.
But this election is bigger than parties or politics — it’s about energy, justice, and the future of millions.

350asia.org/this-time-we...

This Time, We Must Vote Renewables

In Bangladesh, renewable energy is still not part of mainstream political discourse. Election manifestos barely mention it. National debates sideline it. And most tragically, many people don’t yet see...

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350 Asia @350asia.bsky.social · Aug 18

Pakistan produces less than 1% of emissions--but it faces heatwaves, heavy rains, glacial floods & cloudbursts that devastate communities within hours.

We grieve the loss of lives from climate-induced disasters. We #DrawTheLine on climate injustice.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

At least 337 killed in Pakistan floods, gov’t defends emergency response

Residents accuse officials of not warning them to evacuate as torrential rain and cloudbursts trigger deadly flooding.

www.aljazeera.com

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350 Asia @350asia.bsky.social · Aug 15

@adb.org's rushed energy review props up nukes, gas and false solutions. Activists faced the “ADB Kaiju” to say: We draw the line on dirty energy.

No savior is coming — we are the Ultraman now ✊#DrawTheLine

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350 Asia @350asia.bsky.social · Aug 12

Happy International Youth Day! ✊

Let us use our youth power to draw the line against billionaires and corporations destroying our planet.

Join us on September 19-21!
🔗 350.org/draw-the-line/

350 Asia @350asia.bsky.social · Aug 6

🚨US oil deals are forcing Asia to backtrack on climate progress.

As trade concessions lock countries into fossil fuel imports, the region’s energy future hangs in the balance.

Time to #DrawTheLine and reimagine Asia to be powered by people, not polluters.

www.chinadailyglobal.com/a/202508/05/...

US oil deals to derail Asia's green transition

www.chinadailyglobal.com

350 Asia @350asia.bsky.social · Aug 5

Act now here: drawtheline.world

Home | Draw The Line - For life, for people, for the planet.

Join us this September to draw the line against injustice, pollution, and violence; for a future of peace, clean energy, and fairness.

drawtheline.world

350 Asia @350asia.bsky.social · Aug 5

Glimpse of East Asia's scorching weather 🔥

🔴 11,000 Japanese hospitalised for heatstroke last week
🔴 13 heat-related deaths in South Korea this year

We #DrawTheLine on freezing climate obligations, while we swelter in extreme heat!

www.scmp.com/week-asia/he...

Sleepless in Seoul, scorching in Tokyo: East Asia roasts under record heat

Japan records its highest temperature ever at 41.2 degrees as South Korea endures 23 nights in a row above 25 degrees.

www.scmp.com

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