November 19, 2025


Don’t Gas the South Global Campaign Launch

On this day we are launching the Don’t Gas the South Campaign – a collaboration between campaigns across the South

There is a massive gas project build-up in the global south. The expansion rate is pushing the world further away from achieving global climate goals. Even if we exclude proposed gas infrastructures, existing and under construction capacity already overshoots what is needed under any of the IEA’s LNG demand scenarios until 2040.

  • There are 284 discovered gas field and in-development gas extraction projects combined; 153 proposed LNG terminals; 300 proposed pipelines for construction; and 768 gas plants that were announced and in the pre-construction stage in Africa, Latin America and Asia
  • The Asia region hosts the largest gas expansion projects with 104 newly discovered and in development gas fields while 530 gas power plants; 300 gas pipelines; and 84 LNG import and export terminals being planned;
  • Meanwhile, Africa has 104 newly discovered and in development gas fields alongside 147 gas power plants; 27 gas pipelines; and 30 LNG import and export terminals being planned to be build;
  • In the Latin America region, proposals are set for 91 gas power plants; 31 gas pipelines; and 40 LNG import and export terminals. Also, there are 76 newly discovered and in-development stage gas fields

Natural gas is not a transition fuel because renewable energy can supply new energy demand globally.  According to the IEA, renewables are already the fastest-growing energy source, and in the first half of 2025, they met all of the increase in global electricity demand, driven by rapid growth in solar and wind power.

According to IEA, global electricity consumption will reach a new high of over 29 000 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2026. Roughly 85% of new energy demand in the coming years is expected to come from outside the developed world. The Global South’s rapid economic development and population growth is leading to an increased demand for energy. Unfortunately, gas is being pushed to support the increasing demand for energy. Growth in global demand for natural gas is expected to rise in 2026, according to the IEA’s quarterly Gas Market Report published in July.

Gas is not transitional fuel, gas expansion should be stopped immediately

Greenhouse gas emission from natural gas and LNG is mainly methane. Methane’s global warming potential is about 86 times as great over a 20-year period and at least 25 times as great a century after its release. Methane also threatens air quality by increasing the concentration of tropospheric ozone, exposure to which causes an estimated 1 million premature deaths annually worldwide due to respiratory illnesses. Methane’s relative concentration has grown more than twice as fast as that of carbon dioxide since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution because of human-driven emissions. 

Fossil gas is not natural, it is lethal

While the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015 to combat climate change by limiting global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees Celsius. It was only during COP 28 in Dubai in 2024 when fossil fuels phase out was discussed and agreed. However the agreement was referring mainly to unabated coal. 

Natural gas is discussed at the UNFCCC COPs primarily as a transitional fossil fuel, with debates focusing on its role in phasing out coal and the potential for using flared gas. 

As governments gather in Belém for COP30 to debate new NDCs and just transition plans, we must raise a clear demand: stop gas expansion now. There is nothing “transitional” about oil and gas. They are drivers of destruction, not solutions. Every new fossil project locks in more emissions, more injustice, and a deeper climate crisis.

Gas expansion undermines climate actions and derails just transition

Operations from exploration to combustion have caused serious health problems, loss of livelihoods, displacement of communities, human rights violations, destruction of habitat, global warming and the climate crisis

Peoples and communities across the world have been suffering from adverse impacts of fossil gas

Economies across the globe do not need natural gas or LNG in order to replace coal in their energy mix as they phase out coal, and to meet the increase in the demand for energy. Renewable energy potential is huge and can replace fossil fuels completely and meet the increase in energy demand. Solar and wind energy has become much more accessible, cheaper, and quicker and easier to build compared to fossil fuel based energy. 

There is no need for fossil gas expansion. It is not a transition fuel.

The governments of the US, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea are derailing the world’s goal of decarbonizing our society by influencing treaties and policies, and prioritizing investments to boost natural gas and LNG use; the WorldBank, ADB. AIIB for justifying fossil gas financing and promoting it as transition fuel to support energy demand and security of the global south; big private banks like JPMorgan, Citi, HSBC, Bank of America, StandardChartered, MUFG, SMBC, Mizuho, DBS who are bankrolling the gas expansion projects of Shell, Exxon, Chevron, TotalEnergies, BNP Paribas, JERA across the globe – no wonder they keep on lobbying at the COPs for years in order to protect their investments!

Who are the culprits?

There will be a protest action during COP30 in Belem, Brazil on November 19. Simultaneously, mobilizations are taking place in Asia , Africa and Latin America with solidarity action in Louisiana, Texas, USA. These protest actions involve thousands of people from communities, climate activists and advocates of clean and safe energy systems. The peoples of the Global South are the ones suffering the most from climate change impacts. We are determined to end our misery and secure a better future for our families and communities.

Movements across the Global South are now united in stopping fossil gas expansion.

OUR CALLS AND DEMANDS

We must demand #DontGasTheSouth #EndFossilFuels #FastFairForever.

No new fossil fuels – no new finance public or private, no new approvals, licenses, permits, or extensions. The provision of sufficient, consensual climate funding to realise this commitment everywhere.

A rapid, just, and equitable phase-out of existing infrastructure in line with the 1.5C temperature limit and a global plan, like a Fossil Fuel Treaty, to ensure that each country does its part. 

New commitments for international cooperation to drastically scale up climate finance delivery 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.

Stop greenwashing and claiming that offsets, CCS, or geoengineering are solutions to the climate crisis.

Hold polluters responsible for the damage they’ve caused and ensure it’s coal, oil, and gas corporations that pay reparations for climate loss and damage and local rehabilitation, remediation, and transition.

End fossil fuel corporate capture. No to corporations writing the rules of climate action, bankrolling climate talks, or undermining the global response to climate change.

Action Hot Spots!

✊🏽 Let us all unite to show the governments and private corporations that there is a strong global movement against fossil gas: fisherfolks, peasants, trade unions, youth activists, civil society organizations, social movements, feminist and migrant rights groups, faith institutions, academic centers, health institutions, families and peoples of all genders and backgrounds, everywhere, all voices matter!

How to participate

📣 Help plan or join a #DontGasTheSouth build up and protest actions on November 19.

You and your organization or communities can hold build up activities in the lead up to November 19 Global Day of Action Against Gas Expansion. 

Build up activities can either be online or on-site. Press conferences, media releases, and even posting on social media can help drum beat our worldwide protests and ensure our calls and demands reach target audiences such as negotiators, policy makers, business leaders, media and other communities.

On November 19, wherever possible, let’s hold our protest actions in our respective countries. 

Action can also take many other forms: 

  • photo-action in ports, jetties, docking stations, coast sides and even in your communities
  • picket/demonstration in front of the office of your target institutions 
  • marching on the streets carrying banners and flags
  • bike ride or fun run
  • tableau or flashmob of activists in strategic locations 

Make your protest action creative.

To ensure our messages are clearly expressed, you may adopt any of the proposed conduct of the protest action shown below:

The action should vividly show how fossil gas and LNG are affecting humans, livelihoods, environment and climate; our call for the rejection of gas & LNG projects; and what we need are safe, abundant and affordable renewable energy systems like solar and wind.

📷   Or you can think of other best way how to deliver your messages vividly and effectively. In any case, please send your photos and videos over to us by uploading to this link for our shared documentation. Make sure to create and upload them to a NEW FOLDER for this year’s action.

🪧   You can find useful graphics for banners, flags, and placards here.

💻 Hold digital actions!

Digital actions are also welcome actions (Twitter storm, simultaneous postings on Instagram/TikTok, etc.) You can be as creative as you want by posting graphics, photos, videos, etc. 

Posting photos and videos of your physical actions will also help boost our calls.

Please do not forget to use our hashtags so we can help boost each other’s posts:

Amplify the Don’t Gas the South Actions by using the hashtags #StopGasExpansion  #DontGasTheSouth #EndFossilFuels, #FastFairForever. Let’s use these hashtags to find and share everyone’s posts.

Add your event to the map of actions by contacting Red at red@apmdd.org  by Nov 12.

🔊 Help us promote and build up to the Global Day of Action.

Let’s work together to make sure people around the world know what we are planning to do and encourage them to join or do their own actions. Spread the word about #DontGasTheSouth by posting and sharing the event poster and teaser video. Feel free to use materials in the next pages or create your own.

Together let’s mobilize our communities to fight gas expansion!

Together let’s send our resounding voice and demand

#DontGasTheSouth #EndFossilFuels #FastFairForever