The world is at a turning point. Climate change is no longer a dark future to worry about; it is increasingly becoming an oppressive reality. More and more people around the world are reeling under its impacts. The solution is clear: we must keep carbon in the ground to avoid further catastrophe.

East Asia is a critical region in this fight as the host of many fossil fuel energy development sites, which have proved detrimental to local communities and ecosystems. East Asia is also home to many nations that are financing the fossil fuel industry, both domestically and internationally.

350.org East Asia is sowing the seeds of the energy revolution by empowering communities that are fighting fossil-fuel projects in the ground, demanding that finance in coal and other fossil fuel projects be moved toward renewable energy, and pushing their governments to end their political dependence on coal.