Following weeks of a protracted energy crisis and declarations of a state of emergency, ministers and senior officials from Tuvalu, Samoa, Fiji, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia and Vanuatu concluded the Port Vila II: PSIDS Ministerial Dialogue on the Global Just Transition by launching ‘The Tassiriki Call for a Fossil Fuel Free Pacific’. The declaration supports a new regional framework affirming the Pacific’s shared vision for a Fossil Fuel Free Pacific, and it outlines immediate steps to transition to resilient, 100% renewable energy economies. A central demand of the Call is the urgent negotiation and adoption of a global Fossil Fuel Treaty, a binding international mechanism to manage a just, orderly, equitable, and rapid phase-out of coal, oil, and gas. The Call commits participating nations to a coordinated diplomatic strategy to advance the Treaty across all regional and international forums, including the forthcoming Santa Marta Conference and the Second International Conference for the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels in Tuvalu.
