Signatory countries urge world leaders to phase out coal, oil and gas production in line with goal of limiting global heating to 1.5C
Vanuatu’s prime minister, Alatoi Ishmael Kalsakau, said a spate of record profits from fossil fuel companies – largely driven by the market disruptions triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – showed polluting industries would not break from “business as usual” behaviour without being forced.
“We need both domestic action and international cooperation to explicitly stop the expansion of fossil fuel emissions and production in order to fulfil the aims of the Paris Agreement,” Kalsakau said. “Transitioning away from an extractive economy provides us with the opportunity to build one that is instead visionary, regenerative and fruitful.”
The three-day meeting in Port Vila was co-hosted by Vanuatu and Tuvalu, which both supported a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty at the Cop27 climate summit in Egypt in November. If adopted, it would mean an end to fossil fuel expansion, an “equitable phase out” of existing developments and a “global just transition”.
The six nations called on all countries to support a Pacific resolution at the UN general assembly in September
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