Progressing the Transition Away From Fossil Fuels

The document outlines a structured approach to the global transition away from fossil fuels (TAFF), emphasizing that current production and consumption plans are misaligned with 1.5°C pathways. It proposes that effective TAFF roadmaps must be anchored in science, justice, and national ownership, while integrating elements such as subsidy reform, economic diversification, and decommissioning. The guide highlights the necessity of international coordination between producer and consumer countries to manage systemic risks, reform global finance, and ensure a just and orderly transition.

• Effective TAFF roadmaps must be grounded in five core principles: alignment with the best available science, common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, procedural/distributive/restorative justice, national ownership combined with international coordination, and a rights-based approach to development.
• Comprehensive national TAFF roadmaps should integrate nine essential planning elements: addressing both production and consumption, ensuring energy access, reforming fossil fuel subsidies, implementing just transition and economic diversification, managing decommissioning and cleanup, securing manageable finance, establishing participatory governance, setting clear time horizons with MRV systems, and utilizing a whole-of-government approach.
• International coordination is critical to mitigate systemic risks and should focus on six key areas: producer-consumer coordination to align production decline with demand reduction, global financial system reforms to lower borrowing costs, scaled financial and technical assistance, supply chain coordination for critical minerals, knowledge sharing, and the establishment of coordinated political goals and common standards.
• Lessons from international processes suggest that coordination efforts are most successful when they have a clearly defined scope, complement rather than duplicate existing initiatives, incorporate multistakeholder and expert input, are led by participating countries, and include structured follow-up processes.
• Despite the acceleration of clean energy, global planning for coal, oil, and gas production in 2030 is more than double what is consistent with a 1.5°C pathway, and investment is uneven, with only 15% of clean energy investment flowing to emerging economies outside China.

APA

Picciariello, A., Jones, N., Petersen, K., Scott, A., Ullah, F., Parra, P. A. Y., Zanini, V., Signorelli, G., Herschmann, S., Angelo, C., Özenç, B., Gerasimchuk, I., Roberts, L., & Walker, B. (2026). Progressing the Transition Away From Fossil Fuels. International Institute for Sustainable Development. https://www.iisd.org/system/files/2026-03/progressing-transition-fossil-fuels-guide.pdf

Chicago

Picciariello, Angela, Natalie Jones, Katrine Petersen, Alexandra Scott, Farooq Ullah, Paola Andrea Yanguas Parra, Valeria Zanini, et al. Progressing the Transition Away From Fossil Fuels. International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2026. https://www.iisd.org/system/files/2026-03/progressing-transition-fossil-fuels-guide.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{picciariello2026progressing, author = {Picciariello, Angela and Jones, Natalie and Petersen, Katrine and Scott, Alexandra and Ullah, Farooq and Parra, Paola Andrea Yanguas and Zanini, Valeria and Signorelli, Giulia and Herschmann, Stela and Angelo, Claudio and Özenç, Bengisu and Gerasimchuk, Ivetta and Roberts, Leo and Walker, Beth}, title = {{Progressing the Transition Away From Fossil Fuels}}, institution = {International Institute for Sustainable Development}, year = {2026}, month = mar, url = {https://www.iisd.org/system/files/2026-03/progressing-transition-fossil-fuels-guide.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }