Dear City Governments and Mayors,

As Indian Citizens, we are calling on you to show your commitment to climate justice by officially endorsing the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. We are representing a global campaign that seeks a just transition to renewable sources of energy, by phasing out fossil fuels. This September, the Kolkata government became the 1st Indian City to endorse the treaty and it is the duty of all city governments to show their environmental values by joining the ranks.

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, our cities 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. 

As a country, our dependency on producers of fossil fuels not only hinders our economic but also ecological progress. Rising temperatures and sea levels (due to carbon emissions) are already causing large-scale climate disasters and will lead to many critical regions (including highly-populated mega-cities) facing inhabitability in the near future. Each year, we lose more lives and progress to heatwaves, floods, and other climate disasters.

The IPCC report provides adequate evidence that India’s environmental issues will worsen and temperatures will keep rising with continued climate inaction and denial.

Additionally, these issues are increasingly impacting marginalised communities, further propagating socioeconomic and other inequalities. In order to truly achieve social equity and unity, we need climate justice, which calls for phasing out the exploitation of people, indigenous land belonging to Adivasis, and natural resources. It is critical that we take the first steps of halting deforestation and displacement of life for coal-mining projects, which not only pollute the environment further, but also destroy precious carbon sinks and livelihoods.

Using greener resources simply means much lesser long-run costs, while also improving the health of our citizens, animals, and our shared environment.

Without addressing the production of fossil fuels we risk blowing through our climate targets (2070 for the whole of India), 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 70 major cities including Barcelona, Vancouver, Sydney, 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:

Non-Proliferation - preventing new coal, oil, or gas developments
Equitable Phase Out of existing fossil fuel production plans 
Just Transition so that no community, country or worker is left behind.
 

Can we count on your support to commit Mumbai to a fossil fuel phase-out and a just energy transition by submitting a resolution to city council endorsing the call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty?

We aim for the whole nation of India to call for a Fossil Fuel Non-proliferation Treaty by the COP28 in November 2023, to ensure international fossil fuel phase-out.

If you have any questions regarding passing a resolution to endorse the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, please contact Seble Samuel, the Global Cities Campaign Lead for the Fossil Fuel Treaty, who can provide additional resources and support.

Sincerely,
The citizens who have signed this letter.

Please find attached further resources and information on the treaty.

Check details here :
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ed6cbb920ee503bcd5fe86b/t/62632be745ee9d0755fa200d/1650666488830/Policy+Checklist​

https://fossilfueltreaty.org/

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