Worthing Greens had another successful Worthing Borough Council meeting yesterday (17th of December) as the council agreed to endorse the call for a Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty.
The motion was brought to the Worthing Green Party by the local Global Justice Group and Worthing CAN (Climate Action Network). The motion was then tabled and seconded by our councillors for Goring Ward, Ian Davey and Claire Hunt.
We are very pleased that Worthing has now joined many other local Sussex councils in the global initiative that is underway to curb our destructive dependence on fossil fuels. This is a positive and logical step forward for Worthing Borough Council after declaring a climate emergency back in 2019.
The Treaty would end new fossil fuel exploration and expansion in order to decelerate global warming, and meet the the limit 1.5°C warming limit. In other to achieve these aims, the three pillars of action proposed by the Fossil Fuel Treaty are:
1) Non-proliferation – preventing new coal, oil or gas developments
2) Equitable Phase Out of existing fossil fuel production plans
3) A Just Transition so that no community, country or worker is left behind.
Worthing Greens continue the fight to protect citizens in Sussex from the threats of the climate crisis. The passing of this motion demonstrates that, in the words of Ian Davey “whilst individually we are small, together we are many and powerful. Only by acting together will we be able to face up to the challenge of global climate change”