{"id":5965,"date":"2022-11-22T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T08:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/kmru\/?p=5965"},"modified":"2022-11-22T10:01:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T08:01:21","slug":"cop27-flinched-on-phasing-out-all-fossil-fuels-whats-next-for-the-fight-to-keep-them-on-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/cceel\/cop27-flinched-on-phasing-out-all-fossil-fuels-whats-next-for-the-fight-to-keep-them-on-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"COP27 flinched on phasing out &#8216;all fossil fuels&#8217;. What&#8217;s next for the fight to keep them on the ground?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/fergus-green-439836\">Fergus Green<\/a>, Lecturer in Political Theory and Public Policy, UCL and <a href=\"https:\/\/uefconnect.uef.fi\/en\/person\/harro.van-asselt\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/uefconnect.uef.fi\/en\/person\/harro.van-asselt\/\">Harro van Asselt<\/a>, Professor of Climate Law and Policy, University of Eastern Finland. <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/cop27-flinched-on-phasing-out-all-fossil-fuels-whats-next-for-the-fight-to-keep-them-in-the-ground-194941?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/cop27-flinched-on-phasing-out-all-fossil-fuels-whats-next-for-the-fight-to-keep-them-in-the-ground-194941?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton\">First published in The Conversation on 21 November 2022.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest UN climate change summit (COP27) concluded, once again, with a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/climate-change\/news\/cop27-egypt-sharm-climate-b2228661.html\">tussle<\/a>&nbsp;over the place of fossil fuels in the global economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An agreement by the world\u2019s governments to phase out all fossil fuels would have been a welcome progression from last year\u2019 Glasgow climate pact.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/sites\/default\/files\/resource\/cp2021_01_adv.pdf\">It called on countries to<\/a>&nbsp;\u201c[accelerate] efforts towards the phasedown of unabated coal power and phase-out of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies\u201d, making it the first UN treaty to acknowledge the need to do something about the main source of greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But at COP27, widespread anxieties about the cost and availability of energy made many governments cautious about expressing a clear intention to phase out all fossil fuels in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/sites\/default\/files\/resource\/cop27_auv_2_cover%20decision.pdf?download\">resulting agreement<\/a>. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/documents\/624444\">COP27 text<\/a>&nbsp;reiterated the COP26 decision but failed to broaden it to encompass oil and gas, despite a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/cop\/india-seeks-cop27-deal-phase-down-all-fossil-fuels-sources-2022-11-12\/\">proposal by India<\/a>&nbsp;to that end (a move that would have helped take the emphasis off coal, of which it is a major consumer).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, growing support for such an extension is evident. More than 80 countries (including the EU and US)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-11-16\/us-backs-tough-fossil-fuel-phase-down-pledge-at-climate-summit\">supported<\/a>\u00a0India\u2019s proposal. Many nations are building international agreements outside of the UN negotiation process. After the failure of COP27, the question is what should happen next in the fight against continued fossil fuel use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no doubt that, to preserve a liveable climate, the extraction and burning of coal, oil and gas must be&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.1088\/1748-9326\/ac6228\/pdf\">rapidly reduced<\/a>&nbsp;and, depending on how optimistic you are about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14693062.2017.1346498\">carbon capture technologies<\/a>, phased out altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite large&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/productiongap.org\/\">planned increases<\/a>&nbsp;in fossil fuel production,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/news\/world-energy-outlook-2022-shows-the-global-energy-crisis-can-be-a-historic-turning-point-towards-a-cleaner-and-more-secure-future\">recent research<\/a>&nbsp;(released just before COP27) found, for the first time, that global demand for each of the fossil fuels will peak or plateau in all scenarios within 15 years. This is partly due to attempts to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/IP_22_3131\">reduce energy use<\/a>&nbsp;and increase renewables in the wake of the gas shortage created by sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the dangers of extracting and burning fossil fuels have become increasingly apparent, many experts, campaigners, international organisations and, increasingly, governments have contested the moral legitimacy of these activities. In a recent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1002\/wcc.816\">journal article<\/a>, we argued that the Glasgow agreement represented a breakthrough (albeit a modest one) in the emergence of international&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10584-017-2134-6\">anti-fossil fuel norms<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An international norm is a morally appropriate standard of behaviour among states (for example, prevailing norms prohibit foreign aggression, piracy, or the testing and use of nuclear weapons). International conferences such as COP27 catalyse emerging norms by specifying them in formal declarations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COP decisions are not binding and the language on fossil fuels at COP26 was watered down during negotiations. But&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/documents\/310475\">the Glasgow text<\/a>&nbsp;reflected a growing sense among governments that certain activities relating to fossil fuels (like generating electricity from coal without capturing the CO\u2082 and policies which make fossil fuels cheaper to extract and consume) are becoming illegitimate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/496505\/original\/file-20221121-24-x1zjt4.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=45&amp;auto=format&amp;w=754&amp;fit=clip\" alt=\"Three smokestacks on a power plant.\" \/><figcaption>Coal power: increasingly indefensible.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-photo\/aerial-view-coal-power-plant-high-2136951757\">Bilanol\/Shutterstock<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The lack of progress on fossil fuels reflects the upheavals in the energy sector as well as the constraints of the climate negotiations themselves, which operate by consensus. This often produces decisions that reflect the lowest common denominator among nearly 200 countries with diverse energy profiles and interests, and COP27 was no exception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Large oil and gas producers are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/wrapup-global-oil-giants-rake-massive-profits-third-quarter-2022-10-28\/\">profiting handsomely<\/a>&nbsp;from current market prices and have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/influencemap.org\/report\/US-Oil-and-Gas-and-the-War-in-Ukraine-19009\">lobbied<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/influencemap.org\/multipage\/Fossil-Fuels-9105\">governments<\/a>&nbsp;to permit them to explore and drill for yet more oil and gas. At COP27, there were&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2022\/11\/10\/fossil-fuel-lobbyists-outnumber-almost-every-national-delegation-at-cop27-data-shows\">more oil and gas industry lobbyists<\/a>&nbsp;than the combined number of delegates from the ten countries most affected by climate change. Little wonder COP27 did not yield consensus on phasing down all fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other international initiatives are not bound by such procedural constraints, and there was more progress on the sidelines of COP27. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/beyondoilandgasalliance.com\/\">Beyond Oil &amp; Gas Alliance<\/a>&nbsp;(Boga), an initiative launched around the time of COP26 by Denmark and Costa Rica that aims to phase out oil and gas production, attracted&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/beyondoilandgasalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/BOGA_COP27_Press_Release.pdf\">new members<\/a>&nbsp;Chile, Fiji and the US state of Washington, with Portugal upgraded to \u201ccore member\u201d status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emulating a deal between South Africa and several wealthy countries from a year earlier, a new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/statement_22_6892\">just energy transition partnership<\/a>&nbsp;was launched between Indonesia and Japan, Canada, the US, Denmark and others, to help Indonesia transition from coal to renewables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What more can be done?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In the coming years, there will be growing civil society and diplomatic pressure for a phase-out of all fossil fuels in a COP decision. But independent initiatives among states, like Boga, must be nurtured in parallel, and the high-level pledges made in these initiatives must be implemented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For instance, a group of nations&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ukcop26.org\/statement-on-international-public-support-for-the-clean-energy-transition\/\">pledged<\/a>&nbsp;at COP26 to end public finance for fossil fuels by the end of 2022. While some countries are on track to meet this goal,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/priceofoil.org\/2022\/11\/01\/g20-increased-international-public-finance-for-clean-energy-is-the-solution-to-the-energy-crisis-not-more-fossil-investments\/\">others<\/a>&nbsp;are not following through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Countries should also develop an international agreement to restrict and phase out fossil fuels. Building on a global&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fossilfueltreaty.org\/\">campaign<\/a>&nbsp;for such an agreement, the small island nations of Tuvalu and Vanuatu have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fossilfueltreaty.org\/tuvalu\">called for<\/a>&nbsp;a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2589811622000283\">fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty<\/a>. We suggest two ways to advance these efforts which draw on our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/direct.mit.edu\/glep\/article\/22\/4\/28\/112377\/Pathways-to-an-International-Agreement-to-Leave\">recent<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/direct.mit.edu\/glep\/article\/22\/4\/48\/109317\/Counting-Carbon-or-Counting-Coal-Anchoring-Climate\">research<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/496514\/original\/file-20221121-18-5assup.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=45&amp;auto=format&amp;w=754&amp;fit=clip\" alt=\"Protesters hold a sign saying 'don't export climate chaos\/end fossil fuels' behind a replica pipeline.\" \/><figcaption>Anti-fossil fuel protests proceeded despite restrictive policing at COP27.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/epaimages.com\/search.pp?page=3\">EPA-EFE\/Khaled Elfiqi<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>First, Tuvalu and Vanuatu could encourage their Pacific Island counterparts to create a regional&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14693062.2022.2118657\">fossil free zone<\/a>&nbsp;treaty that prohibits the extraction and transportation of fossil fuels throughout the territories and territorial waters of members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second, more must be done to name and shame governments, especially rich ones, who are expanding how much fossil fuel they extract and burn. This effort demands&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/productiongap.org\/2021report\/#R4\">greater transparency<\/a>&nbsp;around government activities. A new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fossilfuelregistry.org\/\">global registry of fossil fuels<\/a>&nbsp;is helping to catalogue this information. But governments should also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/direct.mit.edu\/glep\/article-abstract\/22\/4\/48\/109317\/Counting-Carbon-or-Counting-Coal-Anchoring-Climate?redirectedFrom=fulltext\">disclose all fossil fuel infrastructure<\/a>&nbsp;that is being planned or considered on their territory, or with their support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The COP27 outcome is a timely reminder that curbing the growth in fossil fuels will not come about through consensus-oriented negotiations among governments that include those corrupted by the fossil fuel industry. It will require social movements pressuring leaders to legislate a managed phase out of fossil fuels, while ensuring a just transition for affected workers and communities. And it will require pioneering governments to work together internationally to forge new alliances that accelerate this goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Disclosure statement<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Fergus Green is affiliated with the campaign for Fossil Free Zones and the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harro van Asselt has received funding from the European Union&#8217;s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement no. 101003866 (NDC ASPECTS). He is affiliated with the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Cover photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@coltonsturgeon?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Colton Sturgeon<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/petroleum?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fergus Green, Lecturer in Political Theory and Public Policy, UCL and Harro van Asselt, Professor of Climate Law and Policy, University of Eastern Finland. First published in The Conversation on 21 November 2022. The latest UN climate change summit (COP27) concluded, once again, with a&nbsp;tussle&nbsp;over the place of fossil fuels in the global economy. 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