Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative

So first of all, I'd like to introduce Zipporah Berman, who is joining us from Vancouver and is the co-founder and international program director at Stand Earth, which was formerly called Forest Ethics.

And she's the founder and co-founder chair of the Fossil Fuel Treaty.

Hi, everybody.

I'm thrilled to join you all.

I am the founder and chair of the Fossil Fuel Treaty, and I've spent the last little over 30 years now designing environment and climate policy, advising governments, but also designing advocacy and communications initiatives, really trying to understand how social change is made and how to build power for change.

And I've been focusing on fossil fuels now for about, well, I guess almost the last 20 years.

That's great.

And so it was with that knowledge in hand that I decided to try and build a new international agreement that would be a companion to the Paris Agreement.

We ask you to stop what is obviously wrong, deproscribe Palestine action, end of quote.

Dalnaja shared a platform with Burnham, then Mayor of Greater Manchester, in 2025 in support of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, where Burnham praised his, quote, clarity and leadership.

Now, 18 months later, he's dragged off a pavement under terrorism legislation outside the conference headed by Burnham.

Over 3,700 had been arrested prior to the weekend for peacefully supporting Palestine action since it was designated a terrorist organisation in July 2025.

Absolutely.

Remember the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty? They've got their hands in a lot of critical issues.

Right, they even pressured politicians to reject controversial oil field plans.

It's all interconnected.

She is the convener and international spokesperson of the Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines and also for Fridays for the Future of the Philippines.

She is also on the steering committee of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Youth Climate Justice Fund.

We're also joined by Ellie Kinney, who is a senior climate advocacy officer at the Conflict and Environment Observatory, which focuses on monitoring, understanding and increasing awareness of environmental and humanitarian consequences of conflicts and military activities.

She leads work on the Military Emissions Gap Project, which advocates for greater accountability for the military's contribution to the climate crisis.

So it was a gathering, and it's driven partly by the Brazilian commitment at the last COP to TAF, transitioning away from fossil fuels.

But it's also driven by countries that have been supporting BOGA, the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance, and other countries supporting the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, fossilfueltreaty.org. And what they're each saying is that to deal with the climate crisis, we have to rapidly transition away from fossil fuels.

It's a collective thing.

You can't do it in isolation because a game theory doesn't work.