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What will it take to phase out fossil fuels?

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Published: December 9th, 2023,
Last updated: May 30th, 2025

Nikki Reisch
Nikki Reisch ist Direktorin des Klima- und Energieprogramms am Center for International Environmental Law.
Nikki Reisch is Director of the Climate and Energy Program at the Center for International Environmental Law.

Amid record heatwavesintensifying and costly extreme weather events, and increasingly dire warnings that climate change is literally killing us, calls to abandon fossil fuels grow louder. But the fossil-fuel industry is doubling down with investments in new oil and gas projects and major corporate mergerswalking back climate pledges, and making false promises that they can keep pumping without polluting. We need to ditch fossil fuels. But how?

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