Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
In 2019, Stand.earth’s founder and International Program Director Tzeporah Berman won the Climate Breakthrough Award, a $2M award to extraordinary changemakers to pursue their most ambitious and innovative climate change mitigation ideas. As a result of this award, Stand began incubating Tzeporah’s bold idea for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty – a global effort to end the expansion of coal, oil, and gas, and equitably phase out existing production.
After three years of incredible momentum and expansion, the Treaty Initiative made a strategic decision, in close partnership with Stand, to transition in 2023 to a fiscal sponsor – Earth Island Institute – to better align with the Treaty’s long-term goals and objectives. Stand is proud to have supported the Treaty in its initial few years and are excited to watch as it continues to flourish in the coming months and years.
The 1.5°C pathway is becoming increasingly narrow. The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report notes that the globe has already warmed by 1.2°C degrees. The Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres has said that the IPCC report must “sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels before they destroy our planet.”
There is precedent for international cooperation in a time of crisis, and the current scale of climate disaster calls for a global solution that addresses the fossil fuel industry directly.
A bold solution like the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty would complement the Paris Agreement, a sort of dual model whereby both emissions and production can be tackled as part of a cohesive whole. This means no more new development of fossil fuels, the phase out of existing production, and developing plans to support workers, communities and countries dependent on fossil fuels to create secure and healthy livelihoods.Share
The case for a Fossil Fuel Treaty
The three pillars of the campaign are now supported by 101 Nobel laureates, 3,000 academics, a growing interfaith group of religious leaders, 320 parliamentarians, thousands of youth activists, more than 1,500 civil society organizations and over 60 cities including London, Paris, Sydney, Los Angeles and Lima.
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