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Parliamentarians for a Fossil-Free Future (ParlFossilFree) is a global network of over 800 parliamentarians across 96 countries committed to driving a just, rapid phaseout of fossil fuels and the phase-in of renewable energy systems. 

During the United Nations Climate Conference of the Parties (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, ParlFossilFree will organize and participate in several key events to amplify the call for global action on fossil fuels, renewable energy transitions, and climate justice.

This press kit provides essential information about ParlFossilFree’s planned activities, key messages, and how the media can engage with the delegation during these landmark events.

COP29 PRESS KIT: Global legislators to call for energy transition at COP29

 Key Messages

  • Parliamentarians call on governments to keep 1.5C alive at COP29. 

    Aligning with the Paris Agreement requires that countries build on the COP28 agreement to transition away from fossil fuels, triple up renewables, and double down on energy efficiency.

    Despite the odds, parliamentarians will keep pushing governments, especially those of the Global North, toward the goal of a full, fast, fair, and funded fossil fuel phaseout.

    The new climate finance goal must sufficiently address energy, just transition and other mitigation needs, as well as those for adaptation and loss and damage.

    COP29 must also mark the beginning of the submission of ambitious and actionable national climate plans.

    1. Negotiators must not only hold the line on the Global Stocktake outcome, the first to explicitly call out all fossil fuels. The Baku agreement must immediately end all new fossil fuel extraction, phase out all fossil fuel production and consumption, avoid false solutions, and phase in renewable energy for all.

    2. The fossil fuel phaseout must be reflected in the submission of Nationally Determined Contributions and other domestic plans, backed by investment and implementation frameworks. Global North countries must commit to move first and fastest.

    3. The Mitigation Work Programme must move beyond dialogues and complement negotiations through a substantive decision.

    1. A work plan tackling both the international and national elements of just transition should be established under the Just Transition Work Programme (JTWP). International cooperation must improve to address global inequalities, while developed countries must deliver on finance, capacity-building and technology transfer. There are concerns that the JTWP currently leans toward domestic actions and policies, to the detriment of multilateralism. 

    2. The JTWP must go beyond convening dialogues and deliver on a Just Transition Action Plan by COP30. 

    3. Equity and human rights must guide the work of the JTWP, with a focus on protecting Indigenous Peoples and local communities, among other frontline constituencies.

    1. As a Finance COP, Baku needs to deliver on a New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) of trillions, not billions, going far beyond the current insufficient USD 100 billion baseline. This is for climate finance to be able to equitably and adequately support not just a fossil fuel phaseout but also other mitigation, just transition, adaptation, and loss and damage needs.

    2. Climate finance must be predictable, new and additional and primarily grants based. It must not contribute to the worsening climate, energy, and debt crisis of the Global South. Private sector mobilization and contributions from multilateral development banks (MDBs) should complement—not replace—public funding commitments.

    3. Fossil fuel subsidies must be completely phased out, and expansion of renewable energy must be supported. Polluting countries and corporations must be held accountable. 

    1. The climate policies of the U.S. extend far beyond its borders. Decisions made today have long-term implications for both current and future generations worldwide, especially in vulnerable regions most affected by climate change.

    2. It is essential that the U.S., as a significant historical and per-capita emitter, takes definitive steps to support global efforts to phase out fossil fuels. It must also lead on climate finance and support adaptation, mitigation, and loss and damage funding for developing countries.

    3. The outcome of the U.S. elections reinforces the urgent need for the U.S. to uphold the Paris Agreement and accelerate efforts to phase out fossil fuels.

    1. Parliamentarians for a Fossil-Free Future is a network of over 800 Members of Parliament from 96 countries calling for a full, fast, fair and funded phaseout of fossil fuels and transition to renewable energy systems.

    2. We call on world leaders to work together to:

      1. End new expansion of oil, gas and coal production

      2. Phase out existing fossil fuels fairly and equitably

      3. Enable a just transition and full access to renewable energy, and

      4. Fund the energy transition through public, additional and non-debt-creating climate finance.

    3. We call for new international commitments and treaties, complementing the Paris Agreement, to address the urgency of a swift and just transition away from fossil fuel energy and building democratic, renewable, safe energy systems for all people and communities in line with the goal of keeping global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius and preventing climate catastrophe.

The COP29 Delegation

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    Lukas Hammer

    Member of Parliament, Austria

    Lukas Hammer is a member of the Austrian parliament and Austrian Green Party. He studied political science with a focus on environmental economics and environmental policy. For the past five years, he chaired the Environment Committee of the Austrian Parliament and served as the speaker for climate action and energy for the Austrian Green Party.

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    Cecilia Requena

    Senator, Bolivia

    Cecilia Isabel Requena Zárate is a long-term activist and volunteer in the struggle for nature and democracy. She is a National Senator of the political alliance Comunidad Ciudadana and Secretary of the Committee in charge of Environment, Biodiversity, Amazon, Protected Areas and Climate Change within the Bolivian Senate.

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    Livia Duarte

    Member of Parliament, Brazil

    Livia Duarte is a Deputy of Pará’s Legislative Assembly in Brazil. She is the first black woman to be elected as a state deputy in the history of the Amazonian state. She is the author of the Racial Equality Statute of Belém and dozens of bills in the state of Pará and the municipality. She is well recognized for the fight against fossil fuels exploitation in the Amazon Region.

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    Rosa Galvez

    Senator, Canada

    Rosa Galvez is a member of the Senate of Canada, a member of the Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources, and a member of the Standing Committee on National Finance. Senator Galvez is also the President of the Parliamentary Network on Climate Change of ParlAmericas.

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    Sahar Albazar

    Member of Parliament, Egypt

    Sahar Albazar is an Egyptian Member of Parliament and serves as the deputy chair of the Foreign Relations Committee at the Egyptian House of Representatives. She was previously the President at the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) forum of young parliamentarians.

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    Lisa Badum

    Member of Parliament, Germany

    Since 2017, Lisa Badum has been a Member of Alliance 90/The Greens of the German Bundestag for the constituency of Bamberg. In 2021, she was reelected. She is chairwoman for her party in the Committee on Climate Protection and Energy. Since 2022, she has been the Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on International Climate and Energy Policies.

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    Kathrin Henneberger

    Member of Parliament, Germany

    Kathrin Henneberger is a member of the German Bundestag for Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. She works primarily on global climate justice issues. She is Spokesperson to the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development, as well as the Committee on International Climate and Energy Policy, and is a member of the Committee on Climate and Energy.

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    Anjan Shakya

    Member of Parliament, Nepal

    Dr. Anjan Shakya is a Member of the National Assembly of Nepal. She is the Secretary of the Central Department of Foreign Affairs of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist). She has served as the Ambassador of Nepal to Israel. She was also a Board Member of the Prime Ministerial Advisory Council for Promotion of Industry and Commerce.

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    Rebecca Yei Kamara

    Member of Parliament, Sierra Leone

    Rebecca Yei Kamara is serving her second term in the Sierra Leone House of Parliament. She was the first female elected Member of Parliament in the history of Kono District. She serves as Chairperson of the Climate Parliament and Member of the Committee on Environment and Climate Change.  She is also Secretary-General of the Female MPs Caucus.

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    Júlia Boada-Danés

    Member of Parliament, Spain

    Júlia has been a member of the Spanish Parliament for Sumar En Comú Podem for the constituency of Girona since 2023. She has worked as a political advisor at the European Green Party. She has also served as Director of the Barcelona Youth Council and a member of the board of Catalan Young Greens and of the Federation of Young European Greens.

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    Nusrat Hanje

    Member of Parliament, Tanzania

    Nusrat Shaaban Hanje serves as Member of the Tanzania Parliament and was elected as a Member of the Special Seats as Women’s Representative. She is as a member of the Energy and Minerals Committee. She is a member of the Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (CHADEMA) political party.

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    Lawrence Songa

    Member of Parliament, Uganda

    Biyika Lawrence Songa serves as Member of Parliament for Ora County, Zombo District, in West Nile, Uganda. Hon. Songa’s notable contributions to Uganda's sustainable development leadership include chairing the Parliamentary Committee and Forum on Climate Change and leading Ugandan parliamentarian delegations to international climate conferences and dialogues.

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    Ed Markey

    Senator, United States

    Ed Markey is a United States Senator. He is the Chair of the Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Safety Subcommittee of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. He is also Chair of the Senate Climate Change Task Force. These key positions, combined with his more than 40 years of legislative experience, make him a powerful influence on national and international energy policy.