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Jean SuEnergy Justice Director & Senior AttorneyUSACenter for Biological Diversity“It’s past time for President Biden to put the brakes on the reckless oil and gas expansion punishing the whole world,” said Jean Su, Energy Justice program director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Instead of condemning communities and wildlife to worse suffering, Biden can lead the world’s biggest oil and gas producer in ending the fossil fuel era. Nobody has more power, or greater responsibility, than this president to stop fueling the climate destruction threatening every person, plant and animal on the planet. This is the moment for Biden to break the cycle of harm and heartbreak, stop approving disastrous projects like Willow and the Mountain Valley Pipeline, and lead us forward to a safe and healthy future for all.” 
Nyshie Perkinson - nperkinson@biologicaldiversity.org; Jean Su - jsu@biologicaldiversity.org
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Hon Ralph RegenvanuMinister of Climate Change Adaptation, Environment, Energy, Meteorology, Geo-Hazards & National Disaster ManagementVanuatuRepublic of Vanuatu's "The world requires an unqualified, global, just and equitable phase out of coal, oil and gas production in line with the global temperature goal of below 1.5ºC, called for by science, demanded by civil society, and being led by Parties like Vanuatu. The transition pathway is not one-size fits all, and must be implemented in a nationally determined way in recognition that all of us are still dependent on fossil fuels. But there is no doubt that we must rapidly arrive at an endpoint without a need for fossil fuels, where clean, green and inexpensive energy is the foundation of our societies."
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Andreas Sieber Associate Director of Policy and Campaigns Global350.org“COP28 President and oil CEO Al Jaber says at the UN climate talks that fossil fuel reduction is unavoidable. But talk is cheap; it's time for action. Al Jaber must step up by presenting a solid plan and selecting a pair of ministers to facilitate and elevate discussion on energy transition. COP28 cannot conclude without committing to a complete fossil fuel phase-out and setting ambitious renewable energy targets.”kim.bryan@350.org/ +447770881503
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Alexia Leclercqgrassroots organizer, scholar, and artistUS
Start:Empowerment (a BIPOC & youth led environmental justice org in the U.S)
We are currently a a trajectory towards 2.3 degrees and that is unacceptable. Frontline communities both within the global north and in the global south are already dying, displaced, and direly impacted. I'm tired of seing my community suffer, how much more will it be? The only way to prevent a full climate catastrophe is an equitable fossil fuel phase out. Alexia@start-empowerment.org +1 512-806-8518
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Svitlana RomankoDirectorUkraine, Global"Not only are fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas the biggest cause of climate change, but their sales and exports are often used to fund dictatorships. As with russia, fossil fuel funded wars of aggression are used to brutalize innocent people, and in the case of the war against my country Ukraine, to commit massive atrocities and war crimes. We must end the global fossil fuel addiction that feeds climate catastrophe, energy insecurity and military conflicts, and end it now."
Jason Kirkpatrick, Snr. Communications Mgr., Razom We Stand, jason@razomwestand.org
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Lili FuhrDirector of the Fossil Economy ProgramGlobalCenter for International Environmental Law (CIEL)An immediate, full, equitable, and funded fossil fuel phase-out must be the cornerstone of any strategy to avoid catastrophic levels of global temperature rise. While fossil fuel lobbyists flood policy spaces to promote dangerous distractions like carbon capture technologies, carbon offsets, CO2 ‘removal’ schemes, and solar geoengineering, we demonstrate our solidarity with civil society and environmental advocates around the world defending civic space and human rights to accelerate real and effective climate action. There is no time to waste with false solutions.rrecupero@ciel.org
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Kjell KühneDirectorGlobalLeave it in the Ground Initiative (LINGO)As we enter the "fossil endgame", getting rid of coal, oil and fossil gas extraction and burning becomes a practical, logistical issue. People are ready to leave dirty and dangerous fossil fuels behind. Movements are fighting them at every corner, and will only get stronger. Smart money has stopped supporting fossils. The only thing missing is a political leader that dares to tackle the key question head-on: How are we going to organize the global exit from the fossil fuel age?Fatima Eisam-Eldeen, LINGO Communications, fatima.eisameldeen@leave-it-in-the-ground.org +36 20 297 9444
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Pía CarazoGeneral CoordinatorCosta RicaCosta Rica Libre de PerforaciónSustainability has been Costa Rica´s country brand for decades, but now the country is facing serious climate and environmental regression with fossil fuel projects and promoters lurking around. The situation is even worse in many of our neighboring countries, where many communities and organizations fight for their rights to thrive in a healthy environment and for a just and fair transition away from fossil fuels. / La sostenibilidad ha sido la marca país de Costa Rica durante décadas, pero ahora el país se enfrenta a una seria regresión climática y ambiental con proyectos y promotores de gas fósil y petróleo al acecho. La situación es peor en muchos de nuestros países vecinos, donde muchas comunidades y organizaciones luchan por los derechos de su gente a prosperar en un ambiente sano y por una transición justa y equitativa sin combustibles fósiles.carolinasanchez@proximacomunicacion.com +506 86276223
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Evan GachNode CoordinatorJapanClimate Action Network Japan
If the world is serious about tackling climate change and averting a worsening climate crisis, the only choice is to commit to a rapid, fair, and full phase-out of all fossil fuels. In order to limit global warming to 1.5℃, wealthy countries need to accelerate the transition from fossil fuels to renewables and assist developing countries in their own just transition to a decarbonized society. The world doesn’t have time to continue burning fossil fuels while waiting for unproven technologies like ammonia co-firing and carbon capture and storage - the urgency of the climate crisis demands a rapid, equitable phase-out of all fossil fuels.
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Caroline BrouilletteExecutive DirectorCanadaClimate Action Network CanadaAs forests and communities across Canada go up in smoke, the need for a fair and rapid phase-out of all oil, gas, and coal could not be clearer. Every time our leaders fiddle at the margins and waste time on dangerous techno-distractions, they consign more people and ecosystems to harm and suffering. We cannot tackle the climate crisis until we address the fossil fuel industry and its extractive and colonial business models. People on the front lines have been resisting the industry for decades, and the momentum is building. At COP28, wealthy, high-emitting countries need to finally stand with them and put the world firmly on the path of a Just Transition.
Vicky Coo, Communication Lead, Climate Action Network Canada, vickycoo@climateactionnetwork.ca / +1 613 203 3272
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Catherine AbreuFounder/Exectuive DirectorCanadaDestination ZeroThe world is transitioning away from fossil fuels. And will continue to do so in ways that won’t drastically alter the services we rely on. The fossil fuel industry doesn’t want you to know that. They want us to feel this is impossible. But it’s not impossible. It’s happening and it’s time for the industry to be honest and make realistic, fair plans for transitioning with us.
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Cristina AuerbachMemberMexicoAlianza Mexicana contra el FrackingCommunities economically dependent on fossil fuel extraction have suffered environmental and livelihood damage for decades. These communities do not want to remain sacrifice zones, however, for the energy transition away from fossil fuels to be truly just, it must be built with communities by generating tangible alternatives for a dignified life.
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Lavetanalagi SeruRegional CoordinatorFijiPacific Islands Climate Action NetworkThe lived realities here in the Pacific, backed by the latest scientific evidence cannot underscore enough the urgency to act, to address the climate crisis head-on by ending any further expansion of new fossil fuel projects. The Pacific have demonstrated that another world is possible - one that is just, fair, safe and is fossil fuel free, with now seven countries committing to a Fossil Fuel Free Pacific. Any further delay in concerted global action for immediate, deep and sustained emissions reductions and phase-out of fossil fuels will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all. The 1.5 degrees is not only a goal nor a target, but it is the lifeline for the Pacific and many other climate vulnerable countries. dylan.kava@pican.org
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Fernanda de Carbalho
Global Climate and Energy Policy HeadBrazilWWF An equitable, fast and full fossil fuel phase-out can only result from an all of society effort. It must happen in tandem with scaling up renewables, and redirecting fossil fuel subsidies to renewable energy. The science is clear; the longer we wait to act, the more devastating the consequences will be. We don’t have time for further delay and excuses.
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Alejandra JiménezCoordinatorMexicoCORASON defensa del territorioFor decades indigenous peoples and peasants have been destroyed by the extraction of fossil fuels and the entire socio-economic model that sustains the untouchable fossil industry. A just transition free of fossil fuels implies immediate public recognition of the multiple impacts that allowed the unequal and unjust development of the global north and the abuse of the 1% of the population that has benefited from this fossil model, as well as reparations for damages without conditionalities, and a new ecosocial agreement free of fossil fuels, colonialism, capitalism and patriarchy that respects the self-determination of indigenous peoples over their territories their language, their ancestral knowledge and their valuable role as caretakers of the earth.lakjyol@gmail.com +52 7841176209
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Pablo MontañoGeneral CoordinatorMexicoConexiones ClimáticasEnding the fossil fuel era is way more than a complicated policy matter, it is an opportunity to reinvent our communities, the way we live, the speed of our daily interactions, our priorities, and our ideas of justice. The end of this era is the only possibility for a new era, we are not hopeful that it might, we are obligated to make it happen. mariana@conexionesclimaticas.org
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Susann ScherbarthHead of Climate JusticeGermany
Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND e.V.)
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Schluss mit den Shopping-Touren wohlhabender Nationen wie Deutschland, bei denen sie ihre Taschen mit Gas und kolonialen Mustern füllen. Wir brauchen einen Ausstieg aus allen fossilen Brennstoffen, der gerecht und umgehend umgesetzt wird. Die Finanzierung dieses Wandels für die, denen keine oder kaum Mittel zur Verfügung stehen, ist ein entscheidender Schritt auf dem Weg zu einer gerechten Zukunft. Sonst wird die Klimakrise Mensch und Planet in einem beispiellosen Ausmaß heimsuchen, das uns buchstäblich den Atem raubt.

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Put an end to the shopping sprees of wealthy nations like Germany, where they fill their bags with gas and colonial patterns. We need a fair and fast phase-out of all fossil fuels. The funding of this transformation for those who lack the means, is a crucial step towards a just future. Otherwise, the climate crisis will ravage humanity and the planet on an unprecedented scale, leaving us breathless in its wake."
presse@bund.net
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ROMAIN IOUALALENGlobal Policy LeadFranceOil Change International“There is no room for additional fossil fuel expansion while limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees. COP28 must urgently lay the path for the end of oil, gas, and coal. People around the world have been fighting against the fossil fuel industry for years and will escalate this fight this September at the United Nations in New York and beyond to secure a full, fair, fast, and funded fossil fuel phase out and massive expansion of renewable energy.”al@priceofoil.orgThanks team!
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Shady KhalilCampaigns LeadMENAGreenpeace MENAOne of the highlights of this Bonn Climate Change Conference is the commendable recognition by the UAE presidency that fossil fuel decline is inevitable. Although COP28's vision falls short of addressing the climate crisis with necessary ambition, it signifies progress and sends a powerful message to the world, especially oil and gas-producing nations, that change is unavoidable. it is now imperative for the UAE to follow through by exerting every possible effort to ensure that the upcoming COP secures its place in history by achieving a landmark agreement on a just and equitable phase-out of all fossil fuels - oil, gas and coal. cflores@greenpeace.org
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Sara ShawClimate Justice & Energy Program CoordinatorGlobal Friends of the Earth International Our call to end fossil fuels is a call for a just and equitable transition that does not leave workers and communities behind. Our call to end fossil fuels is a demand that rich countries provide the long overdue climate finance necessary to enable a just transition to renewable energy for all in the global South. Our call to end fossil fuels is a cry for justice for those on the frontlines of the climate crisis and the frontlines of fossil fuels extractivism.
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Javier Andaluz PrietoEcologistas en Acción (Spain)Español
La ciencia ha sido clara estableciendo que para enfrentar la emergencia climática los combustibles fósiles deben de permanecer bajo el suelo. La inacción de gobiernos está protegiendo a los grandes contaminadores y un sistema colonialista que atenta contra el planeta, las comunidades y el futuro. La sociedad civil hoy muestra que frente su guerra contra la vida resistirá solidariamente exigiendo el fin de los combustibles fosiles, el pago de la deuda de carbono del Norte global y la justicia climática. Que no cambie el clima, que cambie el sistema

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Science has been clear in establishing that to face the climate emergency, fossil fuels must keep in the ground. The inaction of governments is protecting the big polluters and a colonialist system that threatens the planet, the communities and the future. Civil society today shows its solidarity and compromise to fight back the war against the life that the business as usual have made. We stand to demand the end of fossil fuels, the payment of the carbon debt of the global North and climate justice. Don't let the climate change, let the system change
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Pablo Montañode Coordinador GeneralMexicoConexiones Climáticas México “Poner fin a la era de los combustibles fósiles es mucho más que una complicada cuestión política, es una oportunidad para reinventar nuestras comunidades, la forma en que vivimos, la velocidad de nuestras interacciones cotidianas, nuestras prioridades y nuestras ideas de justicia. El fin de esta era es la única posibilidad para una nueva; no solo tenemos la esperanza de que así sea, estamos obligados a hacer que suceda”.
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Pía Carazo Coordinadora General Costa RicaCosta Rica Libre de Perforación“ La sostenibilidad ha sido la marca país de Costa Rica durante décadas, pero ahora el país se enfrenta a una seria regresión climática y ambiental con proyectos y promotores de gas fósil y petróleo al acecho. La situación es peor en muchos de nuestros países vecinos, donde muchas comunidades y organizaciones luchan por los derechos de su gente a prosperar en un ambiente sano y por una transición justa y equitativa sin combustibles fósiles."carolinasanchez@proximacomunicacion.com +506 86276223
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Andrés Gómez O.InvestigadorColombia
Censat Agua Viva (Friends of the Earth Colombia)
"El único camino que nos puede llevar a evitar los mayores efectos de la crisis climática es el de dejar la mayor parte de los combustibles fósiles bajo tierra. Esta decisión implica un profundo cambio cultural que debe comenzar por establecer nuevas relaciones de nuestras sociedades con la energía, haciendo especial énfasis en la necesidad de generar un acceso equitativo a la energía a los sectores que hoy viven en precariedad, especialmente en el sur global. La construcción de sociedades post petróleo de baja demanda de energía es una necesidad urgente, y solo podrá llevarse a cabo a partir de cambios radicales en nuestra manera de habitar y relacionarnos con la Tierra; a través de profundizar en consensos de equidad y de buen vivir".
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Guillermina FrenchAsistente de InvestigaciónArgentinaFundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (FARN)"Necesitamos redireccionar los subsidios estatales y el financiamiento internacional de fósiles hacia renovables, y rechazar las condicionalidades que imponen las instituciones financieras internacionales sobre las políticas fiscales, sociales y energéticas tanto en Argentina como en los demás países del Sur Global". María Belén Felix mbfelix@farn.org.ar
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