Amidst a growing polycrisis of geopolitical tensions, global conflict, and climate disasters, a need for a fossil fuel phaseout and transformation of a fossil fuel based economy has never been more dire. Within this context, scientists, Indigenous Peoples, youth, Afrodescendents, women in all their diversity, farmers, social movements, NGOs, academics, and government representatives from 57 countries convened in the major coal port-city of Santa Marta, Colombia for the First