RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS
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Gender, Debt and Fossil Fuels: A Mapping of Key Insights from the African Continent
Bemnet Agata and Dr. Amiera Sawas (2026)
2026, Human Rights, English, Debt Resolution
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G20 Carbon Bombs: Threat of Fossil Fuel Reserves vs. Opportunity for a Just Transition
Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative with data from the Global Registry of Fossil Fuels (2025)
2025, English, International Cooperation & Mechanisms, Just Transition Financing
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Fossil Fuel Commitments in Nationally Determined Contributions
Sergio Díaz, Legal Strategy Director at Fossil Fuel Treaty (2025)
2025, International Cooperation & Mechanisms, Fossil Fuel Extraction, English
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Debt Justice and Financing the Just Global Energy Transition: International Cooperation on the Climate-Debt Crisis and the Role of a Treaty
Jwala Rambarran and Dr. Amiera Sawas (2025)
2025, Debt Resolution, Just Transition Financing, English
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Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels to Curb Air Pollution Health Harms
Rachel Ruback, Lucas Snaije (2025)
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2025, Climate Impacts, Human Rights, English
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Exporting Harm: The Climate Toll of Australia’s Fossil Fuel Expansion
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We Must Stop Subsidising Fossil Fuels and Tax them Instead: A Shipping Levy is the Best Way to get Serious this Year
Dr. Christiaan De Beukelaer, University of Melbourne (2025)
2025, Just Transition Financing, English, Revenue Replacement
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Values and Ideals of the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative
Learn more and view our report here
2024, English, About the Treaty
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If It's Not Global, It's Not Just: How a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty can Accelerate Finance for a Global Just Transition
Dr. Amiera Sawas, Rebecca Brynes, Mia Partridge (2024)
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2024, Just Transition Financing, English
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Financing a Fair and Fast Energy Transition
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What It Means For A Country To Join The Bloc Of Countries Participating In Discussions On A Fossil Fuel Treaty
Fossil Fuel Treaty, 2025
Reading briefing paper in English
2025, English, About the Treaty, International Cooperation & Mechanisms
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How a Treaty Can Catalyse Just Transition Finance
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Urgent Action to Address Energy Access, Debt and Finance for Renewable Energy in the Caribbean Region: Can a new generation of debt-for-renewables swap help?
Jwala Rambarran, Dr. Preeya Mohan, Dr. Amiera Sawas (2024)
2024, Debt Resolution, English
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UNCOMMON WEALTH: Fossil Fuel Expansion in the Commonwealth Dominated by Three Wealthy Countries
Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative, prepared with data from the Global Registry of Fossil Fuels, housed by Carbon Tracker Initiative. Data and analysis prepared by Johnny West (2024)
2024, English, Fossil Fuel Extraction
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Proposed Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative: A Seat at the Table (One-Pager)
2025, About the Treaty, International Cooperation & Mechanisms, English
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Stop Fossil Fuels from Fuelling Conflict: Why a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty is an Essential Climate Tool for Peace
Katrin Geyer (2024) Environment Advisor, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
Report English | Summary English
2024, Human Rights, English
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Cities for a Fossil Free Future: From Enhancing City Diplomacy to Decarbonising Key Sectors
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Fossil Fuel Free Cities Toolkit
Lucas Snaije (2024)
2024, English, About the Treaty, Just Transition Financing
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Understanding supply-side climate policies: towards an interdisciplinary framework
Newell, P., Carter, A. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics (2024)
2024, English, Fossil Fuel Extraction
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Over-reliance on land for carbon dioxide removal in net-zero climate pledges
Kate Dooley, Kirstine Lund Christiansen, Jens Friis Lund, Wim Carton & Alister Self (2024)
2024, Fossil Fuel Extraction, Climate Impacts
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KI MUA: Towards a just transition for the Pacific
Dr. Nikola Čašule, Dr. Alex Edney-Browne and Raeed Ali (2023)
2023, Just Transition Financing, English, International Cooperation & Mechanisms
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Policymakers' Toolkit for a Just Transition from Fossil Fuels
Menotti, V. (2024) Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative & Civil Society Equity Review
2024, Just Transition Financing, English
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The Fossil Fuelled 5
Freddie Daley, University of Sussex (2021)
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2021, English, Fossil Fuel Extraction
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Fuelling Failure: How Coal, Oil and Gas Sabotage All Seventeen Sustainable Development Goals
Freddie Daley & Charlie Lawrie, University of Sussex (2021)
Report in English | Summary in English
2021, Human Rights, International Cooperation & Mechanisms, English
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The Fossil Fuelled Fallacy: How the Dash for Gas in Africa Will Fail to Deliver Development
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The Energy Charter Treaty vs. The Fossil Fuel Treaty: Out with the old, in with the new
Fossil Fuel Treaty (2023)
2023, English, About the Treaty, International Cooperation & Mechanisms
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Economic Diversification from Oil Dependency: Practice and Lessons from Persian Gulf Oil-Dependent Developing Countries
Vicente Paolo B. Yu III, Third World Network (2022)
2022, English, Debt Resolution, Just Transition Financing, Revenue Replacement
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Fossil Fuel Exit Strategy: An orderly wind down of coal, oil and gas to meet the Paris Agreement
Dr Sven Teske & Dr Sarah Niklas (2021), University of Technology Sydney
2021, English, Revenue Replacement, Just Transition Financing, International Cooperation & Mechanisms
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Towards a fossil fuel treaty
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Building a fossil fuel treaty: Key elements
Peter Newell, Harro van Asselt & Freddie Daley (2022)
2022, About the Treaty, English
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Civil Society Equity Review 2021
Civil Society Equity Review (2021)
2021, English, Fossil Fuel Extraction, International Cooperation & Mechanisms
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Scottish Supporter Briefing: Ending the fossil fuel era. Why we need a fossil fuel treaty
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Summary of the 2022 Fossil Fuel Treaty Symposium
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Developing a Transparency Arrangement for Intergovernmental Cooperation on Fossil Fuel Production
Harro van Asselt and Ellycia Harrould-Kolieb (2021), University of Eastern Finland
2021, English, Fossil Fuel Extraction, International Cooperation & Mechanisms
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Concept Note: A Global Just Transition From Fossil Fuels
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A Global Registry of Fossil Fuels White Paper
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Case Study of Malaysia’s Oil and Gas Company – Petronas: Executive Summary
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No Future for Fossil Fuels
Gurprasad Gurumurthy, Dr. Avanish Kumar, Nakul Sharma, Sanjay Vashit (2020)
2022, Climate Impacts, English
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UK Supporter Briefing: The Fossil Fuel Treaty: A global plan for a fossil free future
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En fin de los combustibles fósiles: una ruta hacia la transición energética
Eduardo Calvo, Antonio Zambrano, Augusto Duran (2023)
2023, Just Transition Financing, Spanish
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Crisis Point Report
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Nature Restoration is no substitute for steep emissions reductions
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Just Transition: A Climate, Energy and Development Vision for Africa
Youba Sokona, including Yacob Mulugetta, Meron Tesfamichael, Fadhel Kaboub, Niclas Hällström, Matthew Stilwell, Mohamed Adow, and Colin Besaans (2023)
2023, Just Transition Financing, English
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The Just Transition Pillar of the Fossil Fuel Treaty Proposal
Fossil Fuel Treaty, 2023
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2023, Just Transition Financing, About the Treaty, English
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Fatal fuels: Why human rights protection urgently requires a full and equitable fossil fuel phase out
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Stockholm+50: Unlocking a Better Future
Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), (2022)
2022, International Cooperation & Mechanisms, English
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Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics Overview of the Typology of International Legal Instruments
Centre for International Environmental Law (2022)
2022, English, Climate Impacts, International Cooperation & Mechanisms
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Institutional Mechanisms to Keep Unburnable Fossil Fuel Reserves in the Soil
Lorenzo Pellegrinia, Murat Arsel, Martí Orta-Martínez, Carlos F.Mena, Gorka Muñoa, Energy Policy (2020)
2022, English, Fossil Fuel Extraction, International Cooperation & Mechanisms
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COP28 Briefing: How a Fossil Fuel Treaty will Accelerate the Goals of the Paris Agreement
Gillian Cooper (2023)
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2023, English, International Cooperation & Mechanisms
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Lessons from Humanitarian Treaties for a Fossil Fuel Treaty
Mcleod, Christie (2022)
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2022, About the Treaty, Human Rights, International Cooperation & Mechanisms, English
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Overcoming International Investment Agreements as a Barrier to Climate Action
A Toolkit to Safeguard Fossil Fuel Measures from Investment Treaty Claims, Center for International Environmental Law (2024)
2024, English, Just Transition Financing, International Cooperation & Mechanisms
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Amazon: The First Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Zone?
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English | Spanish | Portuguese2024, English, Spanish, Portuguese, About the Treaty, Fossil Fuel Extraction
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Briefing for Policymakers
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English | Spanish | French | Arabic | Portuguese2023, About the Treaty, English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Portuguese
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Summary Flyer
2023, English, About the Treaty
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Why we need a fossil fuel treaty
Courtney Howard, Jess Beagley, Mohamed Eissa, Ojistoh Horn, Jennifer Kuhl, Jeni Miller, Shweta Narayan, Richard Smith, Willow Thickson et al. (2022), The Lancet Planetary Health
2022, Climate Impacts, About the Treaty
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The political economy of fossil fuel production in the Post-Paris Era: Critically evaluating Nationally Determined Contributions
Amy Janzwood and Kathryn Harrison (2023)
2023, English, Fossil Fuel Extraction, International Cooperation & Mechanisms
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Phaseout Pathways for Fossil Fuel Production Within Paris-compliant Carbon Budgets
Tyndall Center, University of Manchester (2022)
2022, Just Transition Financing, Revenue Replacement, Fossil Fuel Extraction
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The 2021 Production Gap Report
Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Overseas Development Institute (ODI), E3G, and UNEP
2021, English, Fossil Fuel Extraction
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Trends in Fossil Fuel Extraction
Achakulwisut, P. and Erickson, P., Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), (2021)
English, 2021, Fossil Fuel Extraction
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Smoke and Mirrors: The Terms "Unabated" Fossil Fuels and "Inefficient" Subsidies are a Tactic to Delay a Just Transition from Coal, Oil, and Gas
Fossil Fuel Treaty, 2023
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2023, English, Fossil Fuel Extraction, Revenue Replacement, Just Transition Financing
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Unextractable Fossil Fuels in a 1.5 °c World
Dan Welsby, James Price, Steve Pye & Paul Ekins, Nature (2020)
2020, English, Climate Impacts, Fossil Fuel Extraction
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The Case for a Supply-side Climate Treaty
G. B. Asheim, T. Fæhn, K. Nyborg, M. Greaker, C. Hagem, B. Harstad, M. O. Hoel, D. Lund, K. E. Rosendahl, Science (2019)
2019, English, Fossil Fuel Extraction
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Equity, Climate Justice and Fossil Fuel Extraction: Principles for a Managed Phase Out
Sivan Kartha & Greg Muttit (2019)
2019, Human Rights, Revenue Replacement, Just Transition Financing, English
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Cutting with both arms of the scissors: the economic and political case for restrictive supply-side climate policies