Overview
This report sets out a practical reference framework to speed up a fair phaseout of coal, oil, and gas extraction in line with the 1.5°C limit. It combines science with equity, translating them into differentiated timelines across countries based on capacity, historical responsibility, and socio-economic dependence on extraction—plus the scale of international support required to make the transition real.
Key Messages
No new fossil extraction or infrastructure. Opening new oil and gas fields or coal mines must stop immediately, and investment in further build-out should cease.
Global end-date: extraction must decline now and cease worldwide by 2050 to hold a decent chance of 1.5°C.
Different speeds, shared fairness: countries least dependent on extraction and with higher capacity/responsibility must phase out much faster, for example, the US, Canada, Norway, Australia and the UK by the very early 2030s.
Human rights first: where extraction violates human rights, especially the rights of Indigenous Peoples, it must stop urgently.
Finance and support: achieving a rapid, just phaseout in poorer, highly dependent countries requires international support on the order of hundreds of billions of dollars per year from wealthier countries.
Why this matters to our region and feminist movements
Fossil extraction tends to amplify environmental harm, inequality, and social costs borne by workers, women, and marginalized communities, especially under austerity and debt. The framework strengthens advocacy for a gender-just energy transition: fast fossil phaseout with debt-free climate finance, protection of public services, and just transition pathways that secure livelihoods and care infrastructures.
What the report provides
A quantitative roadmap with country-level phaseout timeframes for coal, oil, and gas, anchored in capacity, responsibility, and dependence.
An initial, conservative lower-bound estimate of the international finance and support needed, and guidance on who should pay and why.
Download