The conflict between continued fossil fuel exploration and production and global climate action is evident. The Production Gap Report makes clear that fossil fuel production plans are dangerously out of sync with the climate goals of limiting global warming to 1.5°C or 2°C. Yet the words “fossil fuels” appeared nowhere in the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change of 2015 and it was not until six years later in the Glasgow Climate Pact that the international community first acknowledged the need to act on coal power generation and fossil fuel subsidies. While fossil fuel production is now recognized as part of the climate problem, global production and consumption of oil, gas and coal reached all-time highs in 2021.

The International Conference on Fossil Fuel Supply and Climate Policy explores the intersection of fossil fuel supply and climate policy. The fourth conference, in 2022, seeks to expand its scope to examine the intersection of fossil fuel supply and climate policy amid changing geopolitics, the effects of Covid-19 on supply and demand, price volatility, and ongoing inequalities, discrimination, and impacts on vulnerable groups.

Oil drilling rig and pumpjack on flat plain in Canadian oil fields at sunset

Photo: Mint Images / Getty Images .

The conference themes focus on production (supply) of fossil fuels within the context of addressing climate change during the energy transition:

  • Equity, justice, and fossil fuel supply
  • Business, finance, markets, and volatility
  • Government and intergovernmental policies and institutions for a managed transition
  • Narratives, vested interests, and opposition strategies

Read about the themes in greater detail on the conference website .

Monday, 26 September

9.00-9.15

Welcome

  • Elisa Arond and Miquel Muñoz Cabré, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), conference co-chairs

9.15-10.30

Opening session

  • Moderator: Michael Lazarus, SEI

15.15-16.30

Feminist resistance to fossil fuels

  • Moderator: Elisa Arond, SEI

Diversification and divestment strategies for oil and gas companies

  • Patricio Calles Almeida, SEI
    All in: comparing progress on low-carbon fossil fuel supply strategies

Tools for assessing supply side policies and actions

  • Moderator: Ploy Achakulwisut, SEI

Tuesday, 27 September

9.00-10.30

Plenary: Breaking carbon lock-in in developing producer countries

  • Claudia Strambo, SEI
    Geopolitics of carbon lock-in in fossil fuel-dependent developing countries: case studies of Colombia and Nigeria

11.00-12.15

Just transitions in oil and gas producing countries: Lessons and pathways from the North Sea

Moderator: Olle Olsson, SEI

  • Felipe Sanchez, SEI
    What does ‘just transitions’ mean for oil and gas?

13.30-14.45

Coal phase-out and just transitions: regional approaches

  • José Vega-Araújo, SEI
    A just transition for coal producing regions and the role of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI): a case study from Colombia

Socio-economic and health impacts

Moderator: Claudia Strambo, SEI

  • Ploy Achakulwisut, SEI
    Quantifying the health impacts of air pollution from the oil and gas supply chain in Texas

15.15-16.30

Just transitions in fossil fuel-dependent economies

  • Moderator: Cleo Verkuijl, SEI

The politics of fossil fuel supply

  • Moderator: Stefan Bößner, SEI

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