Amazon Watch at the First Conference on the Transition Away from Fossil Fuels
Financing a Fossil Fuel Treaty
Taking place at the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta, Colombia, this panel – co-hosted by Amazon Watch – will explore the financial architecture and reforms needed to deliver a fast, fair, and funded global phase-out of fossil fuels. The discussion will address how public and private sector financing must align with the goals of the Paris Agreement, the role governments must play in restructuring public finance and regulating private financial flows, and why binding commitments on fossil fuel finance belong in a Fossil Fuel Treaty.
The event will also center frontline Indigenous leaders and their ongoing struggles against oil and gas extraction in the Amazon, and the accountability of financiers enabling that extraction. Panelists will present Protecting Our Planet’s Heart: Parliamentarians’ Roadmap for a Fossil-Free Amazon – a roadmap informed by a year-long inquiry into extractive industry harms and solutions, conducted by Parliamentarians for a Fossil Free Future and member Parliamentarians from Amazonian countries.
Tuesday, April 28, 12:00 – 3:00 PM COT Zuana Beach Resort Hotel, Spa and Convention Center, Santa Marta, Colombia
