Swimming Upstream

The document asserts that reducing fossil fuel supply is essential to keeping global warming well below 2°C, despite the Paris Agreement's silence on the matter. It suggests that countries can use existing Paris Agreement architecture and mechanisms to articulate and report actions aimed at curtailing fossil fuel supply, which would enhance the ambition and effectiveness of climate mitigation efforts.

• Reducing the supply of fossil fuels is a requirement for achieving the Paris Agreement's objective of limiting warming to well below 2°C, although the Agreement does not explicitly mention fossil fuels.
• The current architecture and specific mechanisms of the Paris Agreement can be utilized by countries to report and articulate actions intended to curtail fossil fuel supply.
• Facilitating a transition away from fossil fuels under the UNFCCC process has the potential to increase the effectiveness and ambition of both international and national mitigation efforts.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2018). Swimming Upstream. https://www.sei.org/publications/swimming-upstream/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Swimming Upstream. 2018. https://www.sei.org/publications/swimming-upstream/.

Wikipedia

{{cite report |author=Stockholm Environment Institute |title=Swimming Upstream |date=12 July 2018 |url=https://www.sei.org/publications/swimming-upstream/ |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2018swimming, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Swimming Upstream}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2018}, month = jul, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/swimming-upstream/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }