Join the Keep it in the Ground (KING) Movement
The Keep it in the Ground (KING) Movement creates resistance to fossil fuel extraction and infrastructure everywhere in the world. At LINGO, we encourage you to find like-minded initiatives in your country and join their efforts.
The battle starts in our imagination. With LINGO Murals you can plant the idea in our minds and hearts that fossil fuels need to stay underground for a safe future. The next chance for intervention is at exploration. Divestment challenges fossil fuel finance. Climate litigation can be used to challenge fossil fuel projects or defend activists. Fossil Free Zones can lock in wins against extraction. And so on. We need to slow down fossil fuels at every stop of the way.
Below you find a list of KING movement initiatives ordered by country. Click on the continent to open each list:
Algeria: Ain-Salah
Malawi: Institute of Sustainable Development
Nigeria: Environmental Rights Action
Health of Mother Earth Foundation
South Africa: Centre for Civil Society
Mining Affected Communities United in Action
WoMin – African Women Unite Against Destructive Resource Extraction
Uganda: Global Witness
Argentina: Observatorio Petrolero del Sur
Belize: OCEANA
Bolivia: The Democracy Center
FOBOMADE: Amazonía sin petróleo
Brazil: Não Fracking Brasil
Canada: Unist’ot’en Camp
Voters taking Action on Climate Change
Ecuador: Acción Ecológica
Mexico: Alianza Mexicana contra el Fracking
Peru: Alianza Arkana
USA: Amazon Watch
Center for Biological Diversity
Indigenous Environmental Network
Oceana (and friends all along the East Coast)
OFF Fossil Fuels (campaign by Food & Water Watch)
India: Greenpeace India
Indonesia: Greenpeace Southeast Asia
Myanmar: Earth Rights International
Philippines: Alyansa Tigil Mina (Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao)
Philippine Movement for Climate Justice
Thailand: Thailand Coal Network
Turkey: Kazma Birak
Australia: Galilee Blockade
New Zealand: Coal Action Network Aotearoa
Pacific Islands: 350.org Pacific
Croatia: Clean Adriatic Sea Alliance
Czech Republic: Limity jsme my
France: ATTAC France
Germany: Ausgeco2hlt
BUND Landesverband Nordrhein-Westfalen
Energiekämpfe in Bewegung (EKiB)
Gegen Gasbohren (+ Lokale Initiativen)
Ireland: Shell to Sea
Italy: Comitato No TAP
Netherlands: Code Rood
Norway: Folkeaksjonen
Poland: Fundacja Rozwój Tak – Odkrywki Nie
Portugal: Algarve Surf and Marine Activities Association
Plataforma Algarve Livre de Petróleo
Russia: Экозащита
Spain: Asamblea contra la fractura hidráulica de Cantabria
Canarias dice NO! a las Petroleras
Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade (EJOLT)
Sweden: Fossilgasfällan
CoalBanks.org (a campaign of Banktrack)
Energy Reality (campaigns)
Fractracker Map: Global Resistance to Fracking
Greenpeace (Oil and gas: Leave it in the ground)
(If you know an initiative that is not included, please let us know!)
You may also find the following resources helpful:
- Fossil Tracker a global list of new fossil fuel projects.
- EJOLT’s Atlas of environmental conflicts, which can be filtered for fossil fuel projects. They also have featured maps of Blockadia and the Global Gas Lock-in.
- LINGO’s Poster on Why Extraction Resistance is essential for stopping global warming
- “Beating Goliath” – A resource to win battles against corporations by The Democracy Center
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The Anti-Fracking Mobilization Toolkit developed by Leah Fusco and Angela Carter in Canada (PDF pages 289-299)
- Oilwatch: Ideas to document cases and develop strategies to leave it in the ground
- Yes to Life, No to Mining’s tools for extraction resistance.