A coal elimination treaty 2030: Fast tracking climate change mitigation, global health and security

Anthony Burke; Stefanie Fishel

doi:10.1016/j.esg.2020.100046

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A coal elimination treaty 2030: Fast tracking climate change mitigation, global health and security

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A coal elimination treaty 2030: Fast tracking climate change mitigation, global health and security

Anthony Burke and Stefanie Fishel

Earth System Governance, Vol.3, pp.1-9

2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2020.100046

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Policy and Administration

climate change

coal

fossil fuels

TPNW

WHO

UNFCCC

This article sets out the case for an international treaty to phase out the mining and burning of coal-a Coal Elimination Treaty, or CET-by 2030, as a way of addressing multiple weaknesses in the global climate change regime and as a medium-term success towards arresting average global heating at 1.5°C before 2050. Given the growing risk that the Paris agreement will fail to trigger rapid emissions reduction, we propose the CET as a global "supply-side" mechanism, and as a way of empowering climate-vulnerable and high-ambition states. We make an integrated environmental, public health and security case for a CET, specify its design principles, and propose three negotiation pathways, including a normative model inspired by the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons; one that would progressively stigmatize, prohibit and eliminate coal so as to prevent a dire and unmanageable climatic future.

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Title: A coal elimination treaty 2030: Fast tracking climate change mitigation, global health and security
Authors: Anthony Burke (Author) - University of New South Wales
Stefanie Fishel (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast
Publication details: Earth System Governance, Vol.3, pp.1-9
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date published: 2020
DOI: 10.1016/j.esg.2020.100046
ISSN: 2589-8116; 2589-8116
Copyright note: Copyright © 2020 Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license
Organisation Unit: School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450819502621
Output Type: Journal article
Research Statement: false

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