Greenpeace calls for ending fossil fuels with a binding, fair, and funded transition, not hollow promises: urging governments to walk away from paper-only agreements and to confront the responsibilities of those fueling the crisis.
Bad Omens
Greenpeace demands an end to fossil fuels and sends a warning to COP31: celebrating insufficient agreements while climate danger grows can never be presented as a victory.
The environmental organization calls for a rapid, fair, and funded exit from coal, oil, and gas, the halting of deforestation, and the provision of resources to Global South countries. The responsibility of the Global North must translate into contributions, timetables, and verifiable results.
The Antalya Summit (Turkey), which begins this Monday November 9, will face that challenge. With the real prospect of breaching the 1.5 °C target agreed in Paris, every delay heightens risks and reinforces the need to address the root causes of warming.
Greenpeace demands ending fossil fuels: signing on is not the same as delivering
Jasper Inventor, coordinator of the Greenpeace delegation, questions the negotiations that yield commitments whose implementation is debated again for years. His demand places accountability above the insulting diplomacy propaganda of diplomacy.
The organization calls for urgent and real funding so that the principal culprits, that is, wealthy countries, shoulder their share of the crisis. Costs cannot continue to punish the most affected and those with fewer resources to protect themselves.
Greenpeace insists on ending fossil fuels through decisions that allow measuring progress. Electrification and renewables must help replace them, rather than becoming a pretext to prolong their expansion.
Turkey must answer for its coal; Spain for its exit plan
Berkan Özyer, Greenpeace’s director in Turkey, calls for canceling plans for new coal-fired plants and establishing a timetable for phase-out with social guarantees. The host country must demonstrate coherence between its international commitments and its domestic decisions.
The host country must ban plastic waste imports and set aside hypocrisy as proof of Turkey’s zero-waste policy. Environmental credibility is essential and requires actions that can be verified beyond the COP31 venue.
In Spain, Pedro Zorrilla, head of Greenpeace’s climate campaign, demands new real international funding commitments and a firm, unambiguous plan to exit fossil fuels. The government must explain what measures it will take during and after COP31, with what budget, and within what timelines.
The Pacific cannot wait for a fix that may never arrive
Shiva Gounden, from Greenpeace Australia-Pacific, warns that losing reefs or territories due to rising sea levels can cause irreversible damage. The damage is already done; cooling temperatures in the future does not guarantee the restoration of all that has been destroyed.
Greenpeace demands ending fossil fuels because limiting the severity and duration of the Paris overshoot remains decisive. Every fraction of a degree avoided adds up and matters: assuming deterioration as inevitable fuels inaction, and that is not an option.
The organization calls for a progressive, binding, and funded elimination of fossil fuels. This transition must protect communities, workers, and citizens, respect ecosystems, and ensure their participation. Social justice is an unequivocal part of the climate response.
A plan to achieve a sufficient, efficient, and 100% renewable energy system by 2040, accompanied by international funding through progressive taxes on those who pollute the most and a reconfiguration of the inexplicably harmful fossil subsidies. It is a proposal for now, not an already approved obligation.
Its political value lies in opening a debate filled with contradictions between what is said and what is done, a debate that is necessary in the most polluting countries: who should provide the resources to abandon a model whose environmental and social costs fall on the entire population.
