Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative
Diplomatic and civil society campaign
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| December 18 2024 | The Bahamas and Pakistan endorse the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative |
| December 10 2024 | Freetown, Sierra Leone endorses the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative |
| December 4 2024 | Dublin, Ireland endorses the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative |
| September 2024 | Federated States of Micronesia joined the treaty endorsement during the UN General Assembly. |
| May 28 2024 | Marshall Islands endorses the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative |
| March 26 2024 | Metchosin, British Columbia, Canada endorses the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative |
| 2023 | Palau, Colombia, and Samoa formally endorsed the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty at the United Nations Climate Change Conference. |
| December 11 2023 | Nauru endorses the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative |
| December 4 2023 | Samoa endorses the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative |
| December 2 2023 | Colombia endorses the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative |
| December 1 2023 | Palau endorses the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative |
| December 1 2023 | Over 100 cities and subnational governments publicly voiced their support for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty during the UN Climate Change Conference. |
| September 23 2023 | East Timor and Antigua and Barbuda endorse the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative |
| September 1 2023 | California endorsed the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, adding significant support from a major US state. |
| June 8 2023 | Austin, Texas, USA endorses the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative |
| March 17 2023 | Multiple Pacific Island nations (Tonga, Fiji, Niue, Solomon Islands) simultaneously endorse the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative |
| January 31 2023 | Journalist Gaye Taylor reported on the need for a global fossil fuel non-proliferation agreement, highlighting Ecuador's renewed fossil fuel exploration after abandoning the Yasuní-ITT Initiative a decade earlier. |
| January 20 2023 | Warsaw, Poland endorses the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative |
| November 8 2022 | Tuvalu endorses the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative |
| October 20 2022 | The European Parliament formally endorsed the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, adding significant political weight to the campaign. |
| September 23 2022 | Vanuatu becomes first government to endorse the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative |
| September 14 2022 | The World Health Organization, along with nearly 200 other health organizations, officially endorsed the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. |
| July 21 2022 | The Vatican endorsed the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, providing significant religious institutional support to the diplomatic and civil society campaign. |
| May 5 2022 | Hawaii became a sub-national government to endorse the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative. |
| January 27 2022 | Burnaby, Canada endorses the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative |
| December 10 2021 | Bonn, Germany endorses the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative |
| November 11 2021 | At the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, young climate activists from the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative and Fridays for Future publicly challenged global leaders, demanding a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty and criticizing the lack of explicit mention of fossil fuels in climate agreements. |
| October 7 2021 | Dhulikhel, Nepal endorses the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative |
| August 16 2021 | Sydney, Australia endorses the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative |
| July 15 2021 | Toronto, Canada endorses the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative |
| June 2 2021 | Australian Capital Territory endorsed the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, becoming one of the first sub-national governments to support the campaign. |
| June 1 2021 | Yakima, Washington, USA endorses the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative |
| April 21 2021 | Los Angeles, USA endorses the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative |
| April 21 2021 | The Treaty Initiative coordinated an open letter signed by 100 Nobel laureates, including the Dalai Lama, urging world leaders to phase out fossil fuels and prevent catastrophic climate change. The letter was published a day before U.S. President Joe Biden's virtual 2021 Leaders' Climate Summit. |
| February 2021 | Carbon Tracker and Global Energy Monitor announced the creation of the independent Global Registry of Fossil Fuels, a collaborative effort to enhance transparency and accountability in global fossil fuel production and reserves. |
| January 20 2021 | Barcelona, Spain endorses the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative |
| 2020 | Newell and Simms continued to write and publish about the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty in various news and academic journals. |
| October 9 2020 | Vancouver, Canada endorses the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative |
| September 25 2020 | The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative was officially launched at Climate Week NYC during an event titled 'International Cooperation to Align Fossil Fuel Production with a 1.5°C World'. Tzeporah Berman was named chair and Alex Rafalowicz was named director of the initiative. |
| 2019 | Newell and Simms continued to write and publish about the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty in various news and academic journals. |
| October 23 2018 | Peter Newell and Andrew Simms published an op-ed in The Guardian proposing a 'Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty', highlighting the continued growth of fossil fuel demand despite IPCC recommendations to reduce carbon emissions. |
| November 17 2017 | At the closing of the UN Climate Change Conference, the Democratic Republic of Ethiopia made a final statement on behalf of Least Developed Countries, emphasizing the need to phase out fossil fuels and limit global temperature increase to 1.5 °C. |
| August 2017 | A group of academics, activists, and analysts issued the Lofoten Declaration, stressing the need for a managed decline of fossil fuel production and receiving support from 744 organizations across 76 countries. |
| 2016 | 14 Pacific Island nations discussed the world's first treaty that would ban new coal mining and embrace the 1.5 °C goal from the Paris climate talks. |
| 2015 | Pacific Island leaders issued the 'Suva Declaration On Climate Change' during the Pacific Islands Development Forum in Suva, Fiji, calling for an international moratorium on the development and expansion of fossil fuel extracting industries. |
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