Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (BOGA)
Denmark is, in close cooperation with Quebec, spearheading the international alliance Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (BOGA) to promote a managed phase-out of oil and gas production.
The science is clear – recent reports from the UN Environment Programme, the International Energy Agency and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change all warn that avoiding dangerous levels of climate change and delivering the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement will require a dramatic shift in the way we produce and use energy. Phasing out oil and gas production is a critical part of that challenge.
BOGA is addressing this by gathering a group of ambitious governments that are committed to delivering a managed and just transition away from oil and gas production. Today, BOGA consists of 25 national and subnational governments. BOGA’s core members are committing to end new concessions, licensing or leasing rounds and to set a Paris-aligned date for ending oil and gas production.
Through the BOGA Fund, BOGA is supporting Global South governments that are exploring alternative development pathways beyond oil and gas. BOGA is providing flexible, fast support for initial scoping projects, with the potential for follow-on funding to scale successful interventions.
For more information on BOGA, please visit www.beyondoilandgasalliance.org/
Group of Negative Emitters (GONE):
Since its launch at COP28, GONE has worked to promote the goal of global net-negative emissions. With the Danish government's ambition to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 and reduce emissions by 110% by 2050 compared to 1990 levels, Denmark took the initiative to establish GONE. Even more, projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows the need for Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) and a greater focus on net-negative emissions in order to stay consistent with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C target. At COP29, five new members of GONE were presented, bringing the total to 8 (Denmark, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, Ethiopia, Kenya, Panama, and Suriname).
GONE works on promoting greater ambition in national climate targets, while also being a forum that promotes the tools and measures that can lead the way to negative emissions, and thereby help realise enhanced national targets in NDCs and LTSs across a broader group of countries. This includes all solutions – whether nature-based or novel – that are needed to reach global net-negative emissions.