Climate Action Network Position: The world needs a fair, fast, full, and funded fossil fuel phase-out

The climate crisis is here now, impacting people and communities around the world – and oil, gas, and coal play the largest role in fueling this crisis. Those people and communities who have done the least to cause this fossil-fueled crisis are suffering the most. In 2023, the global atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide crossed 420 parts per million (ppm) – probably the highest it has been for at least ten million years. Fossil fuels are the largest cause of the climate crisis, both historically and currently. The combined carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) emissions from oil, gas, and coal production and consumption amount to approximately 75 percent of all global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions to date2. At the same time as total global greenhouse gas emissions have almost doubled since 1990, the share of climate pollution driven by oil, gas, and coal has also grown