Join our press conference on 22 March, 9am CET, at the Brussels Press Club!
A great panel of Fossil Fuel Treaty champions will be calling on European governments to support a the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty proposal, right after the IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report release, and right before a European Council Summit of Heads of States that will take place on 23 March 2023.
Energy – including oil and gas production – will be a major topic at the meeting which will be held three days after the release of the latest IPCC report, explicitly stating that only the most drastic cuts in carbon emissions from now would help prevent an even greater environmental disaster.
As one of the Global North historical contributors to the climate crisis, European countries have a responsibility to transition first and fastest, while also supporting fossil fuel dependent economies with less capacity to transition. Besides, the war in Ukraine has underscored the urgency to phase out fossil fuels. Apart from its devastating impact on the Ukrainian people, it has precipitated an unprecedented energy and cost of living crisis in Europe, and in Africa, countries are paying the price of European dash for gas to compensate for the lack of Russian gas.
Several Member States have already recognised the need to phase out all fossil fuels at COP 27, and seven have withdrawn from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), which is essentially a fossil fuel protection treaty that runs counter to European climate policies. It is time for European governments to replace the ECT with a climate protection treaty instead: the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Moderator: Larry Moffett, Rise for Climate Belgium
Speakers:
Harjeet Singh (Strategic Advisor to the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative)
Julia Steinberger (IPCC author and Professor of Ecological Economics at the University of Lausanne)
Svitlana Romanko (Co-founder and Coordinator of Razom We Stand)
Olivier de Schutter (Former UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food and human rights)
Manon Aubry (French MEO, La France Insoumise)
H.E Barbara Trachte (Brussels Secretary of State for Economic Transition and Scientific Research)