Phasing out Fossil Fuels Synergies and Trade-offs

This chapter concludes by answering the questions: How do different actors use different arguments and approaches to engage with a fossil fuel phase-out? Which arguments and approaches grapple with the multiple trade-offs, for which actors, and why? And how can these be scaled up? The chapter identifies 10 niche arguments that need scaling up: Revisiting how development is defined, using court cases as an effective option for social movements, social movements can build on existing contextual ideas such as the rights of nature, the need for extraction moratoria, demanding compensation for stranded fossil fuel assets, emphasizing the vulnerability of exports to border tax adjustments can influence national and business policy, holding all accountable for their own climate debt, subject fiduciary responsibility to socio-ecological criteria, use philanthropic funds to decommission existing fossil fuel projects and adapt and implement OECD policy to prohibit ECA finance for fossil fuel projects.