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The International Conference on Fossil Fuel Supply and Climate Policy will take place from 26–27 September 2022 at The Queen’s College in Oxford, UK.
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.
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Past event / This conference explored the many opportunities for policies that aim to explicitly limit fossil fuel production.
Past event / Academics and practitioners from around the world explored whether and how climate policy should limit the supply of fossil fuels.
Initiative / The Carbon Lock-In Initiative seeks to uncover and address the barriers that uphold the fossil fuel-based economy.
Initiative / Esta iniciativa busca descubrir y abordar las barreras que sostienen la economía basada en combustibles fósiles.
Other publication / The 2021 report reveals that countries' fossil fuel production plans remain dangerously out of sync with the limits consistent with the Paris Agreement.
Feature / Citing climate change concerns, a United States federal judge used SEI research on greenhouse gas emissions to halt Gulf of Mexico oil and gas leases.
Journal article / A study in Environmental Research Letters finds that 16 US subsidies could increase the expected profits of new oil and gas fields by 55% and 68%.
