In this seminar, Marcel Llavero-Pasquina will highlight the power of engaged science by providing empirical evidence exposing fossil fuel companies' deceitful narratives and show how global movements can scale successful strategies and coalitions to phase-out fossil fuels.
- Date
- Wednesday 18 Feb 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
- Type
- Seminar
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- Room 1.31
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
About this seminar
The world is on the brink of a climate catastrophe; only a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels can avert the 1.5∘C temperature increase and minimize the risk of triggering irreversible feedback loops.
The Atlas of Unburnable Fossil Fuels demonstrates that no new extraction can be developed, and maps the geospatial distribution of the 90% of operating facilities that need to be prematurely decommissioned. At least 10,000 active oil and gas extraction licenses must be revoked.
The stakes could not be higher. The research has quantified the trillions of dollars in stranded assets that fossil fuel companies are standing to lose. The industry's financial interest clearly explains its efforts to obstruct global climate policy by capturing public institutions and spreading misinformation. This research exposes their false solutions and misleading 'part of the solution' narrative, revealing that, despite corporate rhetoric, only 0.1% of the energy extracted by the oil and gas industry comes from renewable sources.
However, fossil fuel companies are vulnerable Goliaths. Across the world, movements are resisting the expansion of fossil fuel extraction, pipelines and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminals.
Using the EJAtlas, researchers have mapped over 70 struggles that have led to the cancellation of oil and gas extraction projects. By documenting the emerging international resistance against LNG infrastructure, they also demonstrate that the movement to 'leave fossil fuels underground' is no longer a localized phenomenon, but a transformative force in global energy governance.
This work highlights the power of engaged science. In this seminar, Llavero-Paquina will provide the empirical evidence to expose fossil fuel companies’ deceitful narratives and show how research can support global movements to scale successful strategies and coalitions to urgently and definitively phase-out fossil fuels.
About the speaker
Marcel Llavero-Pasquina is a researcher at the Atlas of Unburnable Fossil Fuels at the Universitat de Barcelona. He also coordinates the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice, the world’s largest database of environmental justice conflicts, comprising over 4,250 entries at the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (ICTA-UAB).
Working at the intersection of environmental justice, political ecology and ecological economics, his research seeks to empirically and theoretically understand the nature, objectives, strategy and behaviour of multinational companies in environmental conflicts. In particular, he focuses on the role of the oil and gas industry in delaying the phase-out of fossil fuels, recently exposing in Nature Sustainability the industry's marginal share of global renewables and scrutinising their hydrogen, CCS, carbon offsets, and biofuels projects as 'false solutions' to maintain the fossil fuel status quo.
For more information on this seminar, you can contact Prof. Lorenzo Pellegrini: pellegrini@iss.nl
