RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS

Below are a number of resources relating to the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, including briefings for policymakers, relevant research, recent publications and useful databases. Learn more about the Fossil Fuel Treaty’s Theory of Change. 

New & Emerging Research

Groundbreaking briefings, reports, and research. This new and emerging research can be used to inform and expand the knowledge of governments, cities, NGOs, and activists. This is the most recent research from the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation team in collaboration with partners.

  • 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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  • 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)

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Briefing Notes & Research

Briefings and reports that can help inform governments, cities and other decision-makers about the case for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Want to organise for a member of the Treaty Support Team to join a briefing? Contact campaign@fossilfueltreaty.org

  • Briefing for Policymakers

    Available in English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Arabic

  • COP28 Briefing: How a Fossil Fuel Treaty will Accelerate the Goals of the Paris Agreement

    Available in English

  • Smoke and Mirrors: The Terms "Unabated" Fossil Fuels and "Inefficient" Subsidies are a Tactic to Delay a Just Transition from Coal, Oil, and Gas

    Available in English

  • Why We Need A Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

    Available in English, Spanish and French

  • Financing a Fair and Fast Energy Transition

    Available in English

  • The Just Transition Pillar of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty proposal

    Available in English

  • Pathways to International Cooperation on Fossil Fuels

    Available in English and Spanish

  • How a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty can propel Africa's renewable energy transition

    Available in English and French

  • Amazon: The First Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Zone?

    Available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese

  • Summary Flyer

    Available in English

  • Lessons from Humanitarian Treaties for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

    Available in English

  • Nature restoration is no substitute for steep emission reductions

    Available in English

Research & Publications

The Treaty team with partners publish novel research digging into issues related to fossil fuel production.
General news, including press releases and major media coverage, are available in our latest news.

  • 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)

    VIEW FRAMING PAPER

  • 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)

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  • UNCOMMON WEALTH: Fossil Fuel Expansion in the Commonwealth Dominated by Three Wealthy Countries

    Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation 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)

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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)

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  • Cities for a Fossil Free Future: From Enhancing City Diplomacy to Decarbonising Key Sectors

    Lucas Snaije (2024)

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  • KI MUA: Towards a just transition for the Pacific

    Dr. Nikola Čašule, Dr. Alex Edney-Browne and Raeed Ali (2023)

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  • Policymakers' Toolkit for a Just Transition from Fossil Fuels

    Menotti, V. (2024) Policymakers’ Toolkit for a Just Transition from Fossil Fuels. Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty Initiative & Civil Society Equity Review.

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  • An Equitable Phase Out of Fossil Fuel Extraction

    Civil Society Equity Review (2023)

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  • The Fossil Fuelled 5

    Freddie Daley, University of Sussex (2021)

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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)

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  • The Fossil Fuelled Fallacy: How the Dash for Gas in Africa Will Fail to Deliver Development

    Don’t Gas Africa, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (2022)

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  • The Energy Charter Treaty vs. The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty: Out with the old, in with the new

    Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (2023)

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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)

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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

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  • Towards a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty

    Peter Newell & Andrew Simms (2020), Climate Policy, 20:8, 1043-1054

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  • Building a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty: Key elements

    Peter Newell, Harro van Asselt & Freddie Daley (2022), Earth System Governance, Volume 14, 100159

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  • Civil Society Equity Review 2021

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  • Why we need a fossil fuel non-proliferation 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

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  • Scottish Supporter Briefing: Ending the fossil fuel era. Why we need a fossil fuel treaty

    Global Justice Now Scotland

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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

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  • Concept Note: A Global Just Transition From Fossil Fuels

    Niclas Hällström (2021)

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  • Economic diversification and just transition to 100% renewable energy – Summary of workshops on Pillar III

    Niclas Hällström (2021)

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  • Briefing: The Global Registry of Fossil Fuels

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  • A Global Registry of Fossil Fuels White Paper

    Rebecca Byrnes (2020)

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  • Case Study of Malaysia’s Oil and Gas Company – Petronas: Executive Summary

    Third World Network (2020)

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  • No Future for Fossil Fuels

    Gurprasad Gurumurthy, Dr. Avanish Kumar, Nakul Sharma, Sanjay Vashist (2020)

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  • UK Supporter Briefing: The Fossil Fuel Treaty: A global plan for a fossil free future

    Global Justice Now UK (January 2024)
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  • El fin de los combustibles fósiles: una ruta hacia la transición energética

    Eduardo Calvo, Antonio Zambrano, Augusto Duran (2023)

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Research Library

Third-party research relevant to the call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.

  • 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), Nature Communications 15, Article number: 9118

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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)

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  • Fatal fuels: Why human rights protection urgently requires a full and equitable fossil fuel phase out

    Why Human Rights Protection Urgently Requires a Full and Equitable Fossil Fuel Phase Out: a paper first published in by Amnesty International (2023)

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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)

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  • Just Transition: A Climate, Energy and Development Vision for Africa (2023)

    Youba Sokona, including Yacob Mulugetta, Meron Tesfamichael, Fadhel Kaboub, Niclas Hällström, Matthew Stilwell, Mohamed Adow, and Colin Besaans

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  • Crisis Point Report

    Massive Threats to Amazon and Congo Tropical Forests and Communities From Oil and Gas Expansion - Earth InSight (2022)

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  • Equity, Climate Justice and Fossil Fuel Extraction: Principles for a Managed Phase Out

    Sivan Kartha & Greg Muttit (2019), Climate Policy, 20:8, 1024-1042

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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.

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  • Trends in Fossil Fuel Extraction

    Achakulwisut, P. and Erickson, P., Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), (2021)

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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), 112029

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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), 325-327

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  • Unextractable Fossil Fuels in a 1.5 °c World

    Dan Welsby, James Price, Steve Pye & Paul Ekins, Nature (2020), 597, pages 230–234

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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)

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  • Phaseout Pathways for Fossil Fuel Production Within Paris-compliant Carbon Budgets

    Tyndall Center, University of Manchester (2022)

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  • Stockholm+50: Unlocking a Better Future

    Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), (2022)

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  • Cutting with both arms of the scissors: the economic and political case for restrictive supply-side climate policies

    Fergus Green & Richard Denniss (2018)

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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).

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Submissions and Advices

A collection of formal submissions to UN and other high-level policy processes.

  • Just Transition Work Programme Submission: Ensuring support for people-centric and equitable just transition pathways with a focus on the whole- of-society approach and the workforce

    (2024)

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  • Advisory Memo: Fossil Fuel Commitments in Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement

    (2024)

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  • Mitigation Work Programme: 2023 Global Dialogues

    (2023)

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  • Submission to the Call for Inputs to the First Global Stocktake

    (2023)

    VIEW

  • Submission to the High-level Expert Group on the Net-zero Emissions Commitments of Non-state Entities

    (2022)

    VIEW

  • Submission to High Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism

    (2022)

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  • Submission to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

    (2023)

    VIEW in English / VER en Español

Messaging Playbooks

Messaging research and communications playbooks on how to talk about the need for a just transition from fossil fuels

  • Canada Climate Communications Playbook

    (2022)

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  • Brazil Communications Playbook

    (2022)

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  • India Communications Playbook

    (2022)

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  • Philippines Communications Playbook

    (2022)

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  • Kenya Communications Playbook

    (2022)

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  • United States Communications Playbook

    (2022)

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Databases and Tools

Important databases that can help inform the development of a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.

  • A campaign led by African civil society to ensure Africa is not locked into fossil gas production

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  • Global equity analysis of how climate pledges stack up against the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5°C

    Access Reports

  • A global network of parliamentarians calling for a just transition away from fossil fuels

    Join them

  • A global database of leading supply-side policies that are helping wind down fossil fuel production.

    Access tracker

  • The world’s first publicly accessible database of fossil fuel production globally.

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  • The Global Energy Monitor’s Global Oil and Gas Plant Tracker, an open guide to the world's energy system.

    Access Tracker

  • A public database of the world’s largest oil & gas expansionists.

    Access Database

  • Online, interactive mapping tools to document fossil fuel production’s impacts on people, nature and climate

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  • Critical transparency tools and momentum for restricting fossil fuel, mining, and other industrial expansion threats to key ecosystems and Indigenous and local communities

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  • Report tracks the misalignment between governments’ planned fossil fuel production and global production levels consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C or 2°C

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