Since 2015, the Paris Agreement set clear climate objectives and the last sixth assessment report of the IPCC, instead, shows that the pathway doesn’t follow this mission, besides today we are currently facing a climate emergency worldwide with several impacts on societies and ecosystems (IPCC, 2021). The main responsible of this climate crisis is the fossil fuel industry, responsible for about 90% of the total amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (SEI et al, 2021). In 2021, Welsby et al., following the previous scientific papers on the topics of Unburnable Carbon, define the percentage of oil (58%), gas (56%) and coal (89%) which must leave underground to remain, with a 50% of probability, under the aims of Paris Agreement (Welsby, et al. 2021). The additional step in this investigation is related to not only giving the quantities of resources leaving underground but also defining at country scale the magnitude of urgency for adopting mitigation measures and strategies. At the same time, globally, different political experiment has been carried out. In August 2023 citizens of Ecuador approved by referendum to stop the extraction of hydrocarbons from the Yasuní National Park to safeguard natural ecosystem and the cultural indigenous habits. This is the result of civil society, indigenous and climate movements that after 15 years were able to implement the first world policy of fossil fuel transition leaving oil underground. Moreover, different cooperation experiences have taken place in these years as the BOGA alliance (COP26) or the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. This last one example, is the most proactive strategy to define a possible future fair transition, promoting an immediate phasing out from fossil fuels. The main aspect of the FFNPT is that this initiative is supported by an articulation of global social movements and organizations aiming to influence national and international climate governance from below. In this framework, the proposal research project with the title “GIScience and Landscape Analysis to a Fair and Peaceful Transition away from Fossil Fuels” aims to examine these aspects using a multi-disciplinary and geographical approach to support the EU policies on climate mitigation and adaptation in promoting a fair socio-economic and energy transition. The project will be conducted on different geographical contexts based on social and landscape analysis related on the non-proliferation, fair phase-out and just transition of fossil fuels concession, in particular oil, taking the new oil offshore concession in Brazil, near the end of Amazon basin and the EACOP pipeline as paradigmatic case studies.
The main objective of this project is to be a pilot for a real application of the pillars promoted by FFNTP in creating real pathways to phase out fossil fuel and create adaptable methodologies and practical tools in order to define a model which could be replicated in different countries and territories. Civil societies, movements and organizations will be involved in all the phases of the research activities, it will be a co-creation process of knowledge and consciousness on possible alternative territories pathways with the promotion also of active citizenship as the European one.
Other research activities will be focused on mapping and collecting data about two main topics:
i) world-wide realities (organizations, movements, ONGs) working on climate justice, human rights, fair transition and sustainable topics;
ii) monitoring and reporting the implementation of EU climate policies at member states level. The idea is to support the Climate Adaptation Platform Climate – ADAPT in updating the data on Member States related to the adaptation of climate action, directive and laws implemented by a single state.
