World Retreats On Dismantling Fossil Fuel - Fuel Economy Experts

In the 50 years since the Stockholm Convention in 1972, we learned that a future based on fossil fuels is no future at all.

Photo Insert: Just 90 polluters, largely the major fossil-fuel producers, are responsible for roughly two-thirds of all CO2 emitted since the Industrial Revolution.

Participants at the upcoming Stockholm+50 conference must fight oil, gas, and coal head-on in order to address the interlocking crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and plastic pollution, Nikki Reisch and Lili Fuhr wrote for Project Syndicate on May 31, 2022.

The world is experiencing a triple catastrophe of climate change, environmental degradation, and pollution, all of which have one common cause: the fossil-fuel economy. Runaway climate disruption, broad biodiversity loss, and extensive plastic pollution are all caused by oil, gas, and coal.

When political leaders gather in Stockholm this week to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, the conclusion is clear. Reisch and Fuhr stated that any effort to address these existential dangers to human and ecological health will be futile as long as the fossil-fuel economy stays intact.

Fossil fuels are suffocating our world, as UN Secretary-General António Guterres recently stated.

Their burning accounted for 86 percent of worldwide carbon dioxide emissions in the last decade, with only a few people bearing the brunt of the blame.

In fact, just 90 polluters, largely the major fossil-fuel producers, are responsible for roughly two-thirds of all CO2 emitted since the Industrial Revolution.

Rather than rein in polluters, governments around the world are planning to allow more than twice as much fossil-fuel production in 2030 than would be consistent with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, as agreed in the 2015 Paris climate agreement.

Higher global temperatures and intensifying extreme weather events are simply the beginning of the damage caused by fossil fuels, the authors warned.

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