How oil, gas and coal are driving climate change and sabotaging the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals

New paper exposes the critical dangers that fossil fuels pose to the entire sustainable development agenda.

Fueling Failure - The Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty Initiative

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Fossil fuel addiction subverts every single sustainable development goal

1st JUNE 2022 - As the UN commemorates 50 years since the first international summit on the environment, a new report exposes the critical dangers that fossil fuels pose to  all 17 sustainable development goals.

The report, coined Fuelling Failure: How coal, oil and gas sabotage all seventeen Sustainable Development Goals, finds that oil, gas and coal production and emissions are a primary threat to our water, health, biodiversity and ability to provide economic and energy security. It calls for an international framework with binding commitments that constrain fossil fuel production globally, one that complements existing pledges to cut emissions, reverse biodiversity loss and curtails pollution which the world fails to meet due to their rampant fossil fuel production.

The report, which is draws on more than 400 academic articles, civil society reports and case studies, acknowledges that “the exploration, extraction, refining, transportation and combustion of oil, gas and coal is making it impossible for the global community to meet the SDGs, threatening lives and livelihoods, and the ability of the planet to sustain human wellbeing”. Today’s most pressing crises - from poverty, world hunger, health and conflict - are all made increasingly difficult in a warming world.

Read WHY WE NEED A FOSSIL FUEL NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY General Briefing here

Read POLICY BRIEF – NATURE RESTORATION IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR STEEP EMISSION REDUCTIONS here

Read HOW A FOSSIL FUEL TREATY WILL ACCELERATE THE GOALS OF THE PARIS AGREEMENT here