US EditionOver 50 Countries Call for Fossil Fuel Phaseout, Including Petrochemicals, at Santa Marta Conference
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The release of fossil fuels has taken a significant step on the international climate agenda following the conference held in Santa Marta. More than 50 countries have gathered to address one of the major gaps in climate policy: how to abandon oil, gas and coal in an orderly manner towards the energy transition. The meeting marks a turning point. For the first time, it is proposed to move towards a specific international instrument regulating the…
The Santa Marta conference has concluded with a clear political mandate: more than 50 countries met for the first time to plan for the orderly exit of fossil fuels. The First International Conference for the Transition Beyond Fossil Fuels, co-organized by Colombia and the Netherlands, left an initial and non-binding road map with the commitment to continue the process in a second edition. For six days, the Caribbean city of Santa Marta hosted 56…
More than 50 states want to drive the exit from fossil energy together.
During three decades of negotiations at the UN, it has been virtually impossible to bring the reality of what happens to the planet to the agreements that emerge from the climate summits: the human being is overheating it to dangerous levels with the continued burning of fossil fuels (oil, gas and coal). Moving this scientific evidence to the texts of the summits has been impossible by the firm veto of the main producing countries to any mention…
The first Conference for the Transition beyond Fossil Fuels concluded this Wednesday with a call to build a new "global climate democracy" and with an initial road map to accelerate the progressive abandonment of these fuels. "It is the beginning of a new global climate democracy", said in a press conference at the close of the meeting the Minister of Environment of Colombia, Irene Vélez, when presenting the report of the meeting, which brought …
Fifty-six countries adopted on Wednesday 29 April in Santa Marta their own consensus to get out of fossil fuels, bypassing United Nations blockages. This first conference of a new kind, organized by Colombia with the Netherlands, was held without major emitters such as China or the United States.
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