Download the full letter from over 300 organizations.
Today, over 300 civil society organizations from dozens of countries published a letter rejecting the COP28 Presidency’s flagship announcement at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, the Global Decarbonization Alliance.
The Global Decarbonization Alliance is a pledge coordinated by the COP28 Presidency for oil and gas companies to commit to “take action” to reduce emissions. It is now clear that the voluntary commitment entirely ignores 80-90% of companies’ emissions. Rather than committing to reduce burning fossil fuels — the main cause of climate chaos — the companies are offering to reduce only the “operational emissions” that result before oil and gas are burned.
The letter urges the COP28 Presidency to seize the chance to make COP28 historic by:
- Dropping the Global Decarbonization Alliance
- Working with all COP28 negotiators to secure a legally binding comprehensive energy transition package that includes a full, fair, fast, and funded phase-out of all fossil fuels and a commitment to triple the deployment of nature-positive and community-beneficial renewables and double energy efficiency capacity.
The letter’s signatories span dozens of countries from all continents, displaying a broad range of opposition to the COP28 Presidency’s attempts to distract with hollow voluntary pledges which do not address the vast majority of emissions produced by fossil fuel companies.