Over three days, our communities came together in a powerful wave of resistance and solidarity. Our message was clear: we draw the line at 1.5°C to protect our islands, cultures, and futures.
Across the region and diaspora, Pacific Climate Warriors hosted events that joined a global mobilisation of over 100,000 people in 85 countries. This wasn’t just a protest. It was love for our people. It was storytelling, ceremony, and a demand for justice.
Why We Draw the Line
For us in the Pacific, 1.5°C is not just a number. It’s a lifeline. It marks the line between thriving cultures and disappearing shorelines. Between sovereignty and forced migration. Protecting this limit is a sacred duty. It means defending our traditions, our ancestral knowledge, and our way of life.
We draw the line to protect our sacred histories, our languages, our homes. We draw the line to say: we are not drowning, we are fighting.
What Needs to Happen
To stay below 1.5°C, world leaders must:
- End fossil fuel expansion. No new coal, oil, or gas
- Align national climate plans with the 1.5°C target
- Deliver climate finance and loss & damage support to frontline nations
- Centre Indigenous and Pacific leadership at COP30 and beyond
Pacific Resilience in Action
Here’s how our teams showed up with courage, creativity, and deep cultural grounding:
Fiji
We hosted a panel discussion with local partners, an art build for our children, and a photo action outside the Fiji Museum, calling for a 1.5°C target and climate justice.
PCW Victoria
In response to Australia’s weak climate targets, our team held a Talanoa to discuss the urgency of the crisis. We marched to the beachfront and formed a human line — a living symbol of solidarity and resistance.
Te Whanganui-a-Tara
In Porirua, Pacific and Māori communities gathered during Mahuru Māori. Through weaving and dialogue, we affirmed support for Māori wards and rejected the referendum to remove them. There is no climate justice without Indigenous representation.
Niue
Our families gathered at Tuapa Community Hall to paint banners and share stories. Children expressed what they were drawing the line for through art, voice, and love for their island home.
PCW New South Wales
Wearing vibrant island wear, our communities held banners across the city. We shared why we draw the line: to protect our homes, our languages, our cultures, and our traditions.
Papua New Guinea
As PNG marked 50 years of independence, our team drew the line through four symbolic face artworks, each representing a region, each telling a story of climate loss. These are not distant threats. They are our lived realities.
Palau
We created a video with Reng Collective and Create Belau. It shares how rising seas are erasing sacred sites across our islands. Through dance and storytelling, we honour our heritage and make clear: climate loss is cultural loss.
Kiribati
Youth and local leaders planted mangrove seedlings along a vulnerable coastline, a living line against erosion and collapse. This act of care shows why we draw the line: to protect our homes, our heritage, and our future.
New Caledonia
Our New Caledonia team came together in strength and solidarity to draw the line at 1.5°C. Alongside our youth, we wove a physical line and held it up together, a powerful symbol of unity and resistance. This act was our way of protecting our oceans, our islands, and our people, and showing the boundary we refuse to cross.
Samoa
Young people gathered for a day of dialogue and banner-making, reflecting on climate impacts and their shared vision for justice.
Tuvalu
A youth-led workshop focused on storytelling and advocacy. Participants painted a banner with personal messages, serving as a visual pledge to carry to the COP.
Marshall Islands
Youth built a traditional fishing trap called “Mwio,” symbolising unity and collective action. A short film and poem captured their resistance and hope.
Portland
We hosted a community gathering to share stories from Draw the Line actions across the Pacific and beyond. Through weaving and craft, we created space for connection, cultural practice, and reflection.
PCW Queensland
Our team hosted the “Pawa Up” training, a youth-led event to build momentum for the climate movement. Through interactive workshops, we explored climate change through a Pacific lens and welcomed new voices into the movement.
PCW Tāmaki Makaurau
PCW Tāmaki Makaurau, Ara M’aneaba, and Te Manawa Library hosted a Kiribati Tirinimao weaving workshop to spotlight cultural practices at risk from the climate crisis. Through collective weaving, participants made a powerful statement in support of the 1.5°C goal and climate justice.