Dear (name of city councillor/mayor),
I am a constituent of (insert city name) and I am calling on you to join a global campaign for climate justice by championing a city endorsement of the call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.
We are in a climate emergency. We need to accelerate a just transition away from fossil fuels, and cities are the essential element. As a home to the majority of humanity, cities dominate global energy consumption and emissions. At the same time, they face wildfires, flooding and heatwaves, as well as budget crunches to adapt to these climate catastrophes. But cities are also on the vanguard of climate solutions, stopping fossil fuel projects, electrifying local grids, retrofitting buildings and dropping fossil fuel financing.
(Indicate here how the climate crisis is affecting your community already, and any climate action your city has taken. Make this very relevant/specific to the councillor you are writing. E.g. While New York City has declared a climate emergency, created an advisory body on climate change and divested the city's largest pension funds from fossil fuels, the climate emergency demands more from us all. Hurricane Sandy and rising seas are but a glimpse of the climate dangers that we face as New Yorkers.)
Without addressing the production of fossil fuels we risk blowing through our climate targets. With the recent IEA, IPCC and UNEP reports, now is the time to put the question of managing an equitable transition away from fossil fuels on the international agenda.
Support for the treaty is growing in global momentum. In recent months, 101 Nobel Laureates, over 2,750 scientists and academics, 525 parliamentarians from 70 countries, over 100 cities including Barcelona, Vancouver, Sydney, Lima, Los Angeles and Toronto, as well as more than 1,750 civil society organisations have endorsed the call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.
The three pillars of action proposed by the Fossil Fuel Treaty are:
Can we count on your support to commit (insert name of city) to a fossil fuel phase-out and a just energy transition by (submitting a resolution to city council to endorse/endorsing) the call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty?
If you have any questions regarding passing a resolution to endorse the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, please contact Lucas Snaije, the Cities & Subnational Campaign Coordinator for the Fossil Fuel Treaty, who can provide additional resources and support.
Sincerely,
(Name of campaigner, Postal code)