6 naciones del pacífico piden una transición justa hacia un "pacífico sin combustibles fósiles" que incluya el refuerzo de la legislación para evitar el ecocidio

Today in Vanuatu’s capital Port Vila, leaders of 6 Pacific ocean states made an ambitious collective call to phase out fossil fuels, support a rapid and just Pacific transition to renewable energy, and strengthen related legal obligations - including to “prevent Ecocide”.

Following the 2nd Pacific Ministerial Dialogue on Pathways for the Global Just Transition hosted in Vanuatu from 15 - 17 March, the governments of Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Tonga, Fiji, Niue, and the Solomon Islands committed to creating a “Fossil Fuel Free Pacific” and called for all countries worldwide to end the expansion of fossil fuel production and manage a global, equitable and unqualified phase-out of coal, oil and gas. 

The full outcome document can be read HERE and makes specific commitments to join the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance and to call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The call in respect of ecocide is found under section 4 of the Port Vila Call, for “Redoubled efforts to reaffirm, strengthen and codify legal obligations with respect to the global phase out of fossil fuels.” Subsection d. calls specifically for: “Strengthening the rule of international and domestic law to prevent Ecocide and protect the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment from environmental degradation related to the extraction, production, supply and use of fossil fuels.”