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Nations gather for first-ever conference on fossil fuel exit
Invitation-only talks aim to build a roadmap off fossil fuels after 85 countries called for one at UN climate negotiations.
- Ministers and diplomats are convening this week in Santa Marta, Colombia, for the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, bringing together nation states and subnational governments to address global energy phase-out.
- Colombia and The Netherlands announced the meeting after last year's UN climate negotiations, where a group of petrostates vetoed proposals for a roadmap to phase out Fossil Fuels.
- Vietnam's Vingroup is canceling a US $6.8 billion LNG-to-power project and proposing wind and solar alternatives, while The French are phasing out fossil gas across 100 regions and Vanuatu secured an International Court finding on climate Justice.
- "This is the moment to be honest about the challenges involved in transitioning away from fossil fuels," said Irene Torres, Colombia's minister of environment and sustainable development, emphasizing that solutions require facing these problems directly.
- Australian Energy Minister Chris Bowen told reporters there isn't one country seeking to increase fossil fuel reliance, while Asia is "now rapidly losing faith in the super-chilled fuel" across LNG investments.
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Nations gather for first-ever conference on fossil fuel exit
More than 50 nations are attending a world-first conference on phasing out fossil fuels in Colombia next week as the Iran war underscores how dependent countries remain on planet-heating coal, oil and gas.
From Friday, April 24, to Wednesday, April 29, Santa Marta will host the first international conference on the gradual elimination of fossil fuels, which seeks to implement concrete actions to achieve this. The conference will be co-organized between Colombia, head of the Ministry of Environment and its minister in charge of Irene Vélez, and the Kingdom of the Netherlands and its minister of Climate Policy and Green Growth, Stientje van Veldhove…
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