United for the Future calls on people in every country to
march on 15 September 2028, the International Day of
Democracy, with one message to their leaders: act on the
science and protect our
future.
ANTALYA, 12 November 2026.
United for the Future launches at COP31 today with
a plan to unite 100 million people in peaceful,
non-partisan marches in cities worldwide on the same day.
The goal: the largest coordinated climate
demonstration in history, putting climate action back at the
top of the political agenda.
Backers of
the initiative include Christiana Figueres,
former UN climate chief and a key architect of the
Paris Agreement; Bill McKibben, author and
co-founder of 350.org; Professor Ram Ramanathan
of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC
San Diego; and Sandrine Dixson-Declève,
Honorary President of the Club of
Rome.
The shared call is “Protect our
future. Act on the science.” It asks governments
to stop weakening climate protections and deliver
action that cuts emissions and protects nature in line with
science.
A 2024 Nature Climate Change study
across 125 countries found that 89% want their government to
do more on climate. Yet people underestimate others’
willingness to act. We Don’t Have Time documented 45
climate policy reversals and rollback proposals between July
2025 and July 2026.
“We have never had so
many leading voices back one of our initiatives so quickly.
Even before launch, people around the world have
contacted us after hearing about it by word of mouth,
asking how they can help. People are fed up with
seeing climate action dismantled. We already have the
majority. Now we need to turn that support into pressure
leaders cannot ignore,” says Ingmar
Rentzhog, founder of We Don’t Have Time and
co-founder of United for the Future.
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In 2019,
youth-led global climate strikes recorded more than 11
million attendances across the year’s strike days.
They helped push climate to the top of the political agenda
and build momentum for the European Green Deal.
Britain’s House of Commons declared a climate emergency,
and the UN held its first Youth Climate Summit. United
for the Future wants to build that momentum again, on
greater scale, with every generation and every part of
society.
The Loud Majority
The Baltic Way
showed the power of peaceful mass participation. In 1989,
around two million people joined hands across Estonia,
Latvia and Lithuania, helping pave the way for restored
independence by 1991. United for the Future draws on
that spirit: people across generations and political views
standing together for peaceful climate
action.
A practical model comes from
Stockholm’s march on 23 August 2026, organised by the
Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, the Rebel
Mums, the Rebel Dads and Researchers’ Desk. The
method shared on The Loud Majority brings trusted
organisations, grassroots organisations and their
communities together around one demand, with no party
flags.
“We thought 10,000 would be
difficult to gather. By our estimate, well above 50,000
came, making it one of the largest climate
demonstrations in Swedish history. More than 280
organisations brought their own communities. Families,
scouts, unions and scientists saw a march they belonged in
and wanted to be part of. Now we want to make the same
thing happen on a global scale,” says
Sara Nilsson Lööv, co-founder of
Rebellmammorna/the Rebel Mums and co-founder United for
the Future.
“Every fraction of a
degree of warming we prevent protects people and nature.
Scientists cannot stand aside while the evidence is
ignored. We are helping organise this movement to stand
alongside the public and demand that governments act
on the science,” says Alasdair
Skelton, Professor of Geochemistry and
Petrology at Stockholm University and co-founder of
Researchers’ Desk and co founder United for the
Future.
The International Day of Democracy, 15
September 2028, was chosen to send a clear message:
governments must listen to the majority. It marks ten years
since the youth climate strike movement began and
comes ahead of key elections with global consequences. It
also gives us nearly two years to build the
movement.
Organisations and communities in every
country and every city are invited to help build United for
the Future and to form local coalitions and organise
marches on the same day, united by the same
demand.
Join the initiative:
unitedforthefuture2028.org
About
United for the Future
United for the
Future is a global initiative uniting people across borders
and generations for climate action. Its goal is 100 million
people marching peacefully on 15 September 2028.
Initiated by Researchers Desk and the We Don’t Have Time
Foundation. More information:
unitedforthefuture2028.org
About We
Don’t Have Time
We Don’t Have Time
is the world’s largest media platform for climate action.
wedonthavetime.org foundation.wedonthavetime.org
About Researchers’
Desk
Researchers’ Desk is a
non-profit connecting researchers with the public, educators
and decision-makers. It makes science on climate and
biodiversity accessible and explains society’s choices.
researchersdesk.se
