The Week of Action for Peace and Climate Justice was launched in 2024 and runs yearly, involving a wide range of events and actions organised by groups around the world, from webinars to advocacy events to digital publications to demonstrations.
You can take part in the Week of Action from anywhere, by organising your own event, publication or action for peace and climate justice, or by promoting existing campaigns that address the WoA themes.
Why now?
In September, world leaders will meet at the UN General Assembly — just six weeks before the UN Climate Conference COP31 in Türkiye. We are at a crossroads. 2026 must be a turning point for a just transition, for peace, and for real democracy. Right now, powerful governments are sliding toward authoritarianism, engaging in brinkmanship and reversing decades of progress. Multilateral commitments to climate action as well as arms control and disarmament are being weakened or abandoned. Big Business – including fossil fuel, arms, tech, mining and agrifood companies – and their lobbyists have more influence than the people. Frontline communities suffer the most — yet are shut out of the decisions that shape their lives. Leaders should take direction from communities, not corporations.
This year’s theme: Divest from war – invest in the just transition!
A just transition leaves no one behind – including those caught up polluting industries, from arms to fossil fuels. Groups are welcome to focus on the linkages between peace and climate justice that are most important to them in their actions, but we invite people to unite behind a common demand to divest from war – invest in the just transition!
The Week of Action for Peace and Climate Justice is organised by the Arms, Militarism and Climate Justice Working Group, including International Peace Bureau (IPB), Peace Boat, Stop Wapenhandel, War Resisters International (WRI), Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR), The Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS) and Transnational Institute (TNI).
Key messages and demands 2026
Reduce and redirect military spending to meet social and climate needs
Stop global arms races
Reinforce multilateral cooperation and promote disarmament and diplomacy over deterrence
We refuse to let polluters and billionaires dictate our future
We refuse to let states and corporations profit from war and genocide
We draw the line against militarisation and ecosocial destruction
We demand demilitarised climate justice
We demand common security and people and planetary wellbeing
We demand a just transition away from armed, social and ecological violence
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